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- adverb In a
conciliatory manner - adverb With regard to
conciliation
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Examples
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Let's see now how the eternally near-sighted -- those who try to place a pious veil about the Cuban reality -- justify this, while they continue to conciliatorily shake the dirty hands of the Castro regime.
Yoani Sanchez: Terror: The Last Recourse of the Dictatorship 2009
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Most importantly, it shows how passively, conciliatorily complicit we've been in the journey.
Leonce Gaiter: Ted Kennedy's Best Highlights Our Failures 2008
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The woman who has been sewing drops her work to shrug one rounded shoulder as though she were cold, and ask conciliatorily:
Through Russia 2003
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He raised his arms in the universal peacemaker gesture and inquired conciliatorily, though in bad Spanish, what the trouble might be.
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000
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He raised his arms in the universal peacemaker gesture and inquired conciliatorily, though in bad Spanish, what the trouble might be.
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000
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The woman who has been sewing drops her work to shrug one rounded shoulder as though she were cold, and ask conciliatorily:
Through Russia Maksim Gorky 1902
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The newcomer moved down the room with a subdued rustling of skirts, resolving at last into a neat and appealing feminine presence that smiled confidently and yet conciliatorily and offered a hand towards Selby.
Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories Perceval Gibbon 1902
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"Well, I wish to goodness there was some chance of realizing your hopes," said Charley, conciliatorily.
The Faith Doctor A Story of New York Edward Eggleston 1869
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An afterthought turned her more conciliatorily toward the person, but less to the subject.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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An afterthought turned her more conciliatorily toward the person, but less to the subject.
Beauchamp's Career — Complete George Meredith 1868
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