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What is "placative"

Wiktionary
placative

a. (context chiefly US English) That placates; pacifying.

WordNet
placative

adj. tending or intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions; "the appeasing concessions to the Nazis at Munich"; "placating (or placative) gestures"; "an astonishingly placatory speech" [syn: appeasing(a), placating, placatory]

Usage examples of "placative".

Vill TEMPLE ENTERED THE DINING-ROOM FROM THE KITCHEN, HER face fixed in a cringing, placative expression.

She looked at Temple across SANCTUARY 53 her shoulder while Temple stared at her with that grimace of cringing and placative assurance.