biddably
advEtymology From biddable + -ly.
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In a biddable manner, compliantly.
- "Thank God for colonels, thought Mrs. Miniver; sweet creatures, so easily entertained, so biddably diverted from senseless controversy into comfortable monologue: there was nothing in the world so restful as a really good English colonel."1940 August 5, “This England”, in Time:
- I thanked my host for the uncomfortable night which, but for his kindness, would have been far worse, and biddably leapt from the boat to the scow.1941, Emily Carr, chapter 18, in Klee Wyck: