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conciliatory

adjective as in placid, yielding

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Barack Obama, running as a conciliatory pragmatist in 2008, did even better with some 50 percent.

Their relationships with each other range from conciliatory to borderline antagonistic.

Zawahiri was conciliatory but stern, commanding ISIS to leave Syria and go back to Iraq, where the group was founded.

Vastly outnumbered by halfwits and fellow travellers, I reached for the most conciliatory point available.

Instead of making conciliatory gestures towards the opposition, the government escalted the violence.

We expressed our disgust at the situation and the officer made the conciliatory suggestion that we might be able to go on anyway.

His dealings with the Continental princes, mainly in regard to shipping and commerce, were conciliatory and businesslike.

At first Wall's answers were conciliatory, but naval preparations still went on.

This the King, under the guidance of his Puritan Councillors, proceeded to do in the most conciliatory and least offensive way.

No answers were sent to North's conciliatory proposals; all alike agreed in referring them to the continental congress.

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On this page you'll find 31 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to conciliatory, such as: appeasing, assuaging, calm, civil, disarming, and irenic.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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