Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: obligingly
IPA transcription: [əbl'aɪdʒɪŋli]
r meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: obligingly, accommodatingly
    Meaning: in accommodation; "obligingly, he lowered his voice"
Usage examples
  • Keith whistled and kept time with his feet in a funny little shuffling jig he had learned from Jonesy, and the bear obligingly went through all his tricks.
  • Thus it will be easily understood that that grating, so obligingly opened to Jean Valjean, was a bit of cleverness on Thenardier's part. Thenardier intuitively felt that Javert was still there; the man spied upon has a scent which never deceives him; it was necessary to fling a bone to that sleuth-hound.