• Placatively

    Origin

    en + -placative + ly

    Full definition of placatively

    Adverb

    placatively

    1. In a manner that placates or pacifies.
      • 1916, Booth Tarkington, Seventeen, ch. 29:"All right," she said, placatively. "I didn't mean to bother you, dear."

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