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placatingly

placatingly adverb: in a manner that serves to placate.

Adverb

placatingly (comparative more placatingly, superlative most placatingly)

  1. In a manner that serves to placate.
    • Her title is always on the lips of the crew […] yet she herself is unseen, locked away in her quarters. ‘Working,’ the stewards say, placatingly.2024, Sarah Brooks, The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands, Wiedenfeld & Nicolson, pages 95-96

Forms of placatingly

comparativemore placatingly
superlativemost placatingly

Origin of placatingly

From placating + -ly.

Questions about placatingly

What does placatingly mean?
Placatingly means in a manner that serves to placate.
What part of speech is placatingly?
Placatingly is an adverb.

Words near placatingly in the dictionary

  1. placated
  2. placater
  3. placaters
  4. placates
  5. placating
  6. placatingly
  7. placation
  8. placations
  9. placative
  10. placatively
  11. placator

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