supplicatory

• He very justly observed, that the style was too supplicatory, and the representation too abject, and that he ought, at least, to have made him complain with "the dignity of a gentleman in distress." —  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II
• "Will his most gracious excellency be pleased to permit one who is as the dust beneath his feet to speak in his presence words which only he may hear It was the whine of the Hindu beggar, halting, supplicatory, almost revoltingly servile. —  The Lamp in the Desert
• He very justly observed, that the style was too supplicatory, and the representation too abject, and that he ought at least to have made him complain with "the dignity of a gentleman in distress." —  Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1
• Mrs. Brimmer cast a supplicatory look at Miss Keene, and hastily quitted the room. —  The Crusade of the Excelsior
• None of them were in a supplicatory style: the Emperor already spoke as a master; he did not entreat, he commanded. —  Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I

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