(a.) Desirous to please; courteous; obliging; compliant; as, a complaisant gentleman.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Although it is not the role of peer review to police research integrity and identify fraud or misconduct," the committee's chair, Labour MP Andrew Miller said yesterday, "we found the general oversight of research integrity in the UK to be unsatisfactory and complaisant."
(2) The results show that the subjects--apart from diagnosis--perceive ego-blocking situations as frustrating and react to them in a non-aggressive way (depreciating the conflict, complaisant reactions, passivity).
Uncivil
Definition:
(a.) Not civilized; savage; barbarous; uncivilized.
(a.) Not civil; not complaisant; discourteous; impolite; rude; unpolished; as, uncivil behavior.
Example Sentences:
(1) Uncivil Union Subtitled “comedy for equality”, this benefit raises money for the Ally Coalition and New Alternatives , charities focused on ending discrimination against the LGBTQ community and supporting LGBTQ youths.
(2) The uncivil war between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown often generated bad headlines – even when most journalists underappreciated just how toxic that relationship had become.
(3) Once again, the territory inhabited by the “uncivilized” has been shelled so the west can try out its new lethal toys.
(4) This suggests that no one should be surprised at uncivilized acts emanating from the country.” Sun enjoys enormous celebrity status in China , and his supporters were predictably disappointed when he lost to Horton in the 400m freestyle on Saturday.
(5) The wolf is something threatening now: the wild, unpredictable element in dogs; an uncivilized mirror of man; a pernicious competitor for livestock.
(6) Ahmadinejad's speech was unusually esoteric for a UN session and made only one political reference to Israel, when he denounced what he called the "hegemony of arrogance" of the world's dominant powers, and said the "continued threat by the uncivilized Zionists to resort to military action against our great nation is a clear example of this bitter reality".
(7) More than half reported an increase in uncivil political discourse, and more than a third observed an increase in anti-Muslim or anti-immigrant sentiment.
(8) Religion and race are [an] invention of the savage and uncivil people.” Wafi Chowdhury, a schoolfriend of Samad, said: “Nazim had lived in hostels since grade six and later moved to a shared room after he joined university.” Samad had deactivated his Facebook account about a month ago at the request of his family, but Chowdhury added: “I remember him telling me he would come back on Facebook soon with a grin.” Shamir Chandra Sutradhar, an investigations officer at Sutrapur police in Dhaka, told the Guardian: “His stay in Dhaka has been only two months.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cannes 2014: Mr Turner’s Timothy Spall: ‘I like to paint angels in anguish’ - video interview For those who know little about Turner’s life, it’s a jolt to accept that the creator of paintings of genius was a faulty bloke with an intermittently uncivil tongue, a tendency to grunt and a contradictory attitude towards women.
(10) Their contempt didn’t last long, and a new era of aerial warfare, especially against “uncivilized” peoples, began.
(11) But you won't forgive yourself if you set things up for a second generation of the Blair-Brown uncivil wars.