placatingly

English

Etymology

From placating +‎ -ly.

Adverb

placatingly (comparative more placatingly, superlative most placatingly)

  1. In a manner that serves to placate.
    • 2024, Sarah Brooks, The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands, Wiedenfeld & Nicolson, pages 95-96:
      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.
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