plausive

How To Use plausive In A Sentence

• He can listen to a foolish discourse with an applausive attention, and conceal his laughter at nonsense. Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
• Maitre Pierre, in whom the bravado of the young gallant seemed only to excite laughter, more scornful than applausive. Quentin Durward
• And utter England's name with sadly-plausive voice. ODE
• It must be a very plausive invention that carries it: they begin to smoke me; and disgraces have of late knocked too often at my door. All’s Well That Ends Well
• His lordship kindly gratified them as much as possible, with a sight of his person, by repeatedly presenting himself at the window; and was as repeatedly greeted by the grateful and applausive shouts of the surrounding multitude, invoking Heaven's best blessings on the noble champion of his country. The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2
• Alice's talk was little more than cheerful sound, but, to fill a desolate interval, served its purpose; and her mother supported her with ever-faithful cooings of applausive laughter. Alice Adams
• Instead of getting a soft fence against the cold, shadowy, unapplausive audience of his life, had he only given it a more substantial presence? Middlemarch: a study of provincial life (1900)
• When the murmur of this applausive exclamation had subsided, Alexius proceeded: — “Once more, I say, that my faithful Grand Domestic, and those who act under him, will take care to commit the execution of such part of these orders as may seem aggressive, to troops of foreign appearance and language, which, I grieve to say, are more numerous in our imperial army than our natural-born and orthodox subjects.” Count Robert of Paris
• (“Good-by, men!”), and vanished with us from their applausive presence. Familiar Spanish Travels
• For, as Nathalie passed through the long _salons_, she was followed by such a trail of whispers, envious, malicious, amazed, from the women, universally applausive from the men, that the Countess suddenly realized that she held in her hands The Genius