placatory

How To Use placatory In A Sentence

• Well, they are putting a brave, even placatory face on it but there is no question that should its on-line services arrive in York and be of great size it will have serious consequences for conveyancing practices.
• Anders raised both hands in a placatory, soothing way. Red Wolf
• The manager is therefore in the placatory position of insisting that decisions in South Africa will not be made on the basis of his own software. Fabio Capello ready to rule out Gareth Barry and pick Owen Hargreaves
• I made a telephone call on September 27 to report the problem again which elicited placatory words and promises of action; the light was repaired that day.
• The tone of the letter was placatory.
• But the third note was more placatory, so if another note came it might just say `Sorry to have bothered you '. SUMMER OF SECRETS
• “I know, I know,” he said, raising his hands in a placatory gesture. Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Shattered Light
• What would once have been regarded as an acceptable gift has now become a placatory toy, so it's necessary to compete if you want the child to recognise this is a gift with special intentions.
• an astonishingly placatory speech
• On it she had even performed placatory slave dances, dances of the sort in which the female tires to convince the male that she might perhaps be worth sparing, if only for the pleasure she might bring him. Cinnamon Roll