supplicatory

Example Sentences

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In Moscow, officials are playing down Putin’s supplicatory position.

From Washington Post • Mar. 19, 2023

And yet while Dylan’s lyrical gift is wild, copious, and immoderate, Cohen’s is precise, supplicatory and cloistral.

From The Guardian • Nov. 19, 2016

I saw that her face was confused and supplicatory… It was a very unusual sort of face for her.

From Best Russian Short Stories by Seltzer, Thomas

From this terror, however, they were gradually in some measure relieved by the supplicatory language and tones of the person seeking admittance.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 by Various

"You cannot see my father, mother," she said in a broken and supplicatory tone.

From Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire by Ainsworth, William Harrison