Definitions
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- adjective That
placates ;pacifying .
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- adjective intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions
Etymologies
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Examples
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We should certainly know what is being taught in all our schools, and to expect a private inspection cadre, which will inevitably soon fall under the control of Deobandis who will put up the shutters to Ofsted while feeding it placative lies, is a crass and reckless step that we shall all come to rue. libertyni
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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The lieutenant governor of the colony was an ambivalent, placative man named George Arthur, who might well have preferred that travesty of humaneness.
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The lieutenant governor of the colony was an ambivalent, placative man named George Arthur, who might well have preferred that travesty of humaneness.
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And with a little flurry of placative laughter, she added: "At your age, of course!"
The Magnificent Ambersons; illustrated by Arthur William Brown
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And with a little flurry of placative laughter, she added: At your age, of course!
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Penrod's answer, like the look he lifted to the impressive stranger, was meek and placative.
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Finally Silas went home defeated, with a last word, half condemnatory, half placative.
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The little man's voice was placative; his manner gravely ingratiating.
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She offered a murmur of placative laughter as her apology, and said:
Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William
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With a placative little laugh, Mr. Schofield remarked: "I git the swing to her all right, I reckon, but somehow it doesn't sound so kind of good as when I was writing it."
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