placatory
Example Sentences
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That placatory language was met by a furious response from Qatari officials, who called the attack a “flagrant violation” of Qatar’s sovereignty and its airspace.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2025
He offered a couple of placatory bromides about the continuing virility of Real Madrid and Barcelona.
From New York Times • Nov. 19, 2021
And there are enough useful crumbs of history to straight out a few popular rewritings, such as Roger Guenveur Smith's more honest depiction of Booker T. Washington as a figure placatory of white supremacy.
From Salon • Mar. 20, 2020
The initial weeks of the popular uprising were met with placatory speeches from Iraqi leaders, and a passive stance from security forces.
From The Guardian • Nov. 24, 2019
The authors of the essay, though they deny the possibility of finding a single explicative principle chosen arbitrarily,504 themselves announce a principle, which, however, amounts simply to the statement that sacrifice is placatory.
From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Jastrow, Morris
