placative

How To Use placative In A Sentence

• And with a little flurry of placative laughter, she added: "At your age, of course! The Magnificent Ambersons; illustrated by Arthur William Brown
• I don't understand about getting -- about getting bigger," said Bibbs, bringing his gaze down to look at his father placatively. The Turmoil
• ` ` Walter, let's dance just once more, '' Alice said, touching his arm placatively. Alice Adams
• The lieutenant governor of the colony was an ambivalent, placative man named George Arthur, who might well have preferred that travesty of humaneness. The Song of The Dodo
• She offered a murmur of placative laughter as her apology, and said: Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William
• “Do you like to ride?” she asked sweetly and placatively. An American Tragedy
• I just called," he said placatively, smiling as if some humour lurked in his intention, "to ask how your father is. The Flirt
• With a placative little laugh, Mr. Schofield remarked: "I git the swing to her all right, I reckon, but somehow it doesn't sound so kind of good as when I was writing it. The Gentleman from Indiana
• When not off his guard, he always looked at it placatively. Penrod and Sam
• Walter, let's dance just once more," Alice said, touching his arm placatively. Alice Adams