COMPLAISANCE

the willingness to comply with the wishes of others

/a disposition or tendancy to yield to the will of others

SYN - compliancy, deterence, obligingness

"The last thing the group needed was a nother leader, so the real reason they picked Shelly was because of her complaisance."

"He had managed to develop a complaisant attitude at work, which made him a perfect employee in the eyes of his dictatorial supervisor."

"She had grown sick and tired of his complaisance and desired to be with someone who was less willing to compromise all the time, even if it meant they would clash and disagree."

"He didnt want to cause any conflict amongst his new friends and so had developed a complaisant attitude."

"Even though it seemed like the best way to become friends with people was to be complaisant, allowing them to do exactly what it was they wanted to do all the time, but this was actualyl the last thing people wanted. What people looked for in friends were people who were strong and uncompromising, and who happened to just by chance -- having grown up and established themselves completely on their own -- match their own interests in a way that led to pleasurable encounters. It is rather uniteresting to just have a complaisant indivudual. That was like love for one, instead of two."