He's got ways of compromising a girl that you don't know anything about.
Did he want to go the way Shields had gone, compromising with his conscience in order to keep his job, ashamed to face his fellow man, cringing, remorseful, unhappy?
The British Government was not to be hoodwinked; and, as soon as it declined these compromising proposals, a storm of abuse swept through the German Press at the barbarities of British troops in South Africa.
He would fain have greeted the king with some word that should show sensibility to the royal graciousness, without compromising republican severity, "clothing some great and useful truth in a fine and deserved compliment.
He began to repent of his imprudent haste, because it would certainly end bycompromising Madame d'Houdetot, and because, moreover, he had no proof after all that his suspicions had any foundation.
Marguerite, alone at Bagneres with her maid, and not being in any fear of compromising herself, granted the duke's request.
Correct them temperately, without compromising either their health or their intelligence, but at the same time do not imitate the apes who from excess of tenderness, smother their young.
I myself am inclined to think it was some pious Nicodemus who, having got wind of the wicked designs of Faber, made it his business to frustrate them without compromising himself.
The governor's answer showed that he was not wholly averse to an accommodation with Almagro, provided it could be effected without compromising the royal authority.
That packet was a letter--not a clumsy compromising letter, but an innocent, unintelligible lover's epistle.
Glaser's objection that government pressure is impossible, have no need to give special instructions, of a more or less compromising character, in order to exercise a special influence in any particular case.
European works on various periods of revolutionary history figure almost invariably amongst seizures of a far more compromising character whenever the Indian police raids some centre of Nationalist activity.
She thought he was abrupt, more cool to her since their return, and guessed the reason; it was for fear of compromising her.
To think that a pupil of mine drives about in a taxi-cab with compromising letters in her pocket!
It is quite obvious that for the Hungarian Communists it would have been more profitable to have come to power later, after having afforded to the Left Opportunists the possibility of compromising themselves once and for all.
That would be a verycompromising step for you," she said.
After compromising herself by continually appearing in public with Mme.
I had nothing compromising in my suit-case, so that caused no difficulty.
The King later on teased the Duke of Leeds by a more compromising overture.
It would have been better for all concerned, for I should have been in possession of myself to-day, and my client by compromising would in the end have lost no more than he had to pay me for my services--fifteen thousand pounds.
Excepting those retained as future shields, he tore all such sheets into bits, and compromising documents he burned.
He thinks them a compromisinglove correspondence of mine.
It is also quite likely that, failing in this, you sought the return of the compromisingletters which you had written to him.
You're locating him in a compromising situation, all right," Frank said.
A pattern to professors of monarchical autonomy, I don't indulge in levity or compromising bonhomie, But dignified formality, consistent with economy, Above all other virtues I particularly prize.
His friends were formally tried, but Godoy dared not ask questions compromising the French ambassador, and they were acquitted.
Its very existence enraged him; that such matters should have been put in writing was compromising to his entire policy.
In addition to these difficulties the South also burdened him with an untimely and compromising friendship.
Fortunately his good sense, his even judgment, his unexcitable temperament had saved him from the appearance or the reality of partisanship and from any entangling or compromising personal commitments.
To him there appears to be a much greater degree of the compromising in a tete-a-tete drive than in a walk.
He is a strait-laced man, and it seems to him as if there were something gravely compromising to her in this tete-a-tete drive with himself, in the known absence of her parents at Hammam Rhira.
For himself he had no fear, excepting that, if caught, he would be compelled to explain the compromising contents of his bag and the tin canister.
In the car they discovered a complete wireless outfit, a signalling lamp, and a handbag containing certain compromising documents.
It is hardly to be doubted that, guilty or not guilty, Mary would have disowned the authorship of the compromising clauses.
I could not speak without compromising George Prattleton, sir; and if I had, he might have been brought to trial for it.
It's a good berth," he replied, withoutcompromising himself.
The beautiful Norman flattered herself that she had carried a lover off from her enemy; and the beautiful Lisa was indignant with the hussy who, by luring the sly cousin to her home, would surely end by compromising them all.
As for Gavard, he was compromising his position as one of the Fat, and would end by becoming as flat as a bug.
Had she a right to keep a watch upon him, and to do what she could to prevent him from compromising her husband, her daughter, and herself?
I know very well who it was; and it would be a great deal better if he would look after his own safety before compromising that of others.
For a moment it occurred to her to provoke an explanation with Florent, but she dismissed that idea, fearing lest he would only go and perpetrate his crime elsewhere, and maliciously make a point of compromising them.
One of Gavard's greatest delights was to shut himself up with a friend, and show him all these compromising things.
It was evident that he felt great pleasure in dabbling in what he considered to be a compromising business.
He might, indeed, have been safely trusted with the most compromising communications.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "compromising" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
