be solicitous
Example Sentences
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Some observers predict the governor will be solicitous to the McCain family’s wishes.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 26, 2018
In questioning suspects, he could be solicitous or circumspect, and he understood the menace to be had in silence.
From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2018
He has shown himself to be solicitous to claims of religious exemptions from the law, to gun rights claims and to the prosecution of death penalty cases.
From The Guardian • Jan. 31, 2017
He could also be solicitous, such as calling to check in with an informant after she underwent an operation.
From New York Times • May 11, 2011
Sometimes they rested because 75 he thought she ought to—himself a trifle pumped—only to find, to his amazement, that he need not be solicitous concerning her.
From The Moonlit Way by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
