Crossword clues for obligingly
obligingly
The Collaborative International Dictionary
obliging \o*bli"ging\ ([-o]*bl[imac]"j[i^]ng), a. Putting under obligation; disposed to oblige or do favors; hence, helpful; civil; kind.
Mons. Strozzi has many curiosities, and is very
obliging to a stranger who desires the sight of them.
--Addison.
Syn: Civil; complaisant; courteous; kind, -- Obliging, Kind, Complaisant.
Usage: One is kind who desires to see others happy; one is complaisant who endeavors to make them so in social intercourse by attentions calculated to please; one who is obliging performs some actual service, or has the disposition to do so. [1913 Webster] -- O*bli"ging*ly. adv. -- O*bli"ging*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. In an obliging manner.
WordNet
adv. in accommodation; "obligingly, he lowered his voice" [syn: accommodatingly]
Usage examples of "obligingly".
Gwince, and the two bosses obligingly escorted Voral Jene to the nearer wall.
Dahlia tried her best to sound excited, and the other bridesmaids twittered obligingly.
I happened to praise a very pretty room opening upon the orange-house, and the amiable host, having heard me, came obligingly to me, and said that it should be my room that night.
Jessica had known where to put him because Herbert Franklin Colcannon had obligingly worn a carnation in his lapel.
Climpson was surprised by this statement, which seemed to argue a high degree of imagination, but she obligingly imparted a slight gyratory movement to the table.
He looked about for some bait, and Omis obligingly handed him a fat caterpillar from a small basketful.
A little after this the two young men took themselves away, Dyke obligingly carrying them in the wagon as far as the gate that opened into the Quien Sabe ranch.
Placing the orange silk firmly over his mouth and nose, Simkin moved obligingly to the window, peering outside.
The other district ranger obligingly left his own vehicle to sit in the backseat behind the heavy wire grid protecting Barth and Anna.
Smithson had dropped into a nest which had been kept warm for him for three centuries, aired and beautified by generations of a noble race which had obligingly decayed and dwindled in order to make room for Mr.
Obligingly he sank back in, penetrating deeply, feeling her close tightly around him, hearing her smothered cry.
So, since most of the new men were adherents of the Old Religion, Theodoric obligingly joined them in swearing the auths on the pagan Allfather Wotan.
Holmes obligingly started up the whine for bakshish,although he was hardly dressed for the part, and beggars rarely juggled mirrored balls.
Gwince, and the two bosses obligingly escorted Voral Jene to the nearer wall.
Too, as a student and a Brahmin, he was respectful of the revered status of the master-teacher, and it was in the Brahminical tradition that he should obligingly render service to others.