The phrase "anxious to please" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is eager or overly willing to satisfy others or meet their expectations.
Example: "She was always anxious to please her boss, often going above and beyond in her work."
Alternatives: "eager to satisfy" or "keen to please".
She's anxious to please and worried she probably won't.
7 He is not anxious to please his audience.
Wilson was loquacious, self-justifying, scornful, though anxious to please, fundamentally warm-hearted.
The customer complains about the service and the laundry proprietor is anxious to please.
The government, anxious to please a powerful constituency, does not interfere.
Waiters serving the meal, though, were warm, friendly fellows, anxious to please.
Joe is very much the kind of role that Mr. Hoffman might have played during his "Graduate" days: anxious, eager to please, not sure what is required of him.
The real gulf is between their masculine ambition and confidence and her anxious-to-please, yielding femininity.
On "The Corny Collins Show," where new dances are introduced, the affable Corny runs a "Miss Teenage Hairspray" contest, and the anxious-to-please kids smile frantically and show off their erect hairdos.
An anxious-to-please husband and father as well as an immensely popular guy, he charmed all sorts of people, from the adoring audiences he addressed at Alcoholics Anonymous meetings around the country to the likes of Judy Garland, Charlie Chaplin, his idol Thomas Mann and a smattering of Partisan Review intellectuals.
Like all bohemian and intellectual circles, the little group of actors and artists is held together by shared seriousness, shared pleasure; they accept the bar girl as a friend because she's fiercely independent and outspoken, but they can't accept the anxious-to-please philistine Castella, whom they insult to his face.
