Usually means: Calming someone by giving in.
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  1. placatingly: Merriam-Webster
  2. placatingly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. placatingly: Collins English Dictionary
  4. placatingly: Vocabulary.com
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  6. placatingly: Wiktionary
  7. placatingly: Dictionary.com
  8. placatingly: Rhymezone
  9. placatingly: FreeDictionary.org
  10. placatingly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. placatingly: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. placatingly: Legal dictionary

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▸ adverb:  In a manner that serves to placate.

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placatively, appeasingly, appeasably, mollifyingly, placably, pacifyingly, propitiatingly, complaisantly, accommodatingly, assuagingly, more...

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placatively, appeasingly, appeasably, mollifyingly, placably, pacifyingly, propitiatingly, complaisantly, accommodatingly, assuagingly, more...



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