propitiatory
Example Sentences
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There was a brief Cabinet crisis, in which Premier Solh shuffled his ministers in a faintly propitiatory manner.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ancestors are invoked who around her as she starts the propitiatory dance.
From Time Magazine Archive
He already felt the most abject and propitiatory of social outcasts when he came upon Coote, and Coote finished him.
From Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
At this critical moment, our hostess approached with a water-ice, as a propitiatory offering, and expressed the hope that the guitar was now renewed for action.
From The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews by Henry Lunettes
There were to be no more propitiatory inventions.
From The Claw by Cynthia Stockley
