complaisant

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Private institutional investors such as BlackRock and Vanguard tend to be more complaisant about CEO pay — except for European funds.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2023

She opined that modern journalists, like herself, had helped to "normalise the absurd" and that going forward "whilst we do not have to be campaigners, nor should we be complaisant, complicit, onlookers."

From BBC • Aug. 24, 2022

These cases are quite different from the phoney stories planted by studio flacks from time immemorial, dependent on co-operative artists and a complaisant press.

From The Guardian • Nov. 7, 2016

The GPA ethos takes spirited children and pushes them to be hard working but complaisant.

From Seattle Times • May 13, 2016

But complaisant as the Treasury had been on this occasion, their co-operation was fitful and uncertain.

From The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 by Joyce, Herbert