complaisant

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__What Does Complaisant mean?__

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 * > Name: || John Schuman ||
 * > Word: || complaisant ||
 * > Source: || [//The Savage Wars of Peace//, Max Boot, "To Conquer upon the Sea", The New Navy,62.] ||
 * > Appropriate Definition: || Adj: tending to consent to others' wishes ||
 * > Definition URL: || [] ||
 * > Context Sentences: || Now Mahan urged the US to match the Europeans in building on armada capable of gaining control of the seas. There was some opposition, including from the other **complaisant** military establishment, but the critics were pounded into submission by rhetorical broadsides fired by Mahan and his influential friends, a circle that included Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Philosopher Brooks Adams, Rear Admiral Stephen B. Luce, and, not least, a rising young politician Theodore Roosevelt, who displayed his genius by denouncing "flapdoodle pacifists and molycoddlers" who resisted the call of national greatness. The navalists triumph has been much written about but remains insufficently appreciated.  ||

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