Usually means: Designed to attract and please.
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  2. ad captandum: Wordnik
  3. ad captandum: Wiktionary
  4. Ad captandum: Dictionary.com
  5. Ad captandum: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. Ad captandum: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. ad captandum: FreeDictionary.org
  8. Ad captandum: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. ad captandum: Merriam-Webster

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  1. ad captandum: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Attempting to win popular favour, or to take in the public.

Similar:
receptary, acclamatory, admissory, acclaiming, acclamative, capitulatory, onside, pleading, contestatory, suscipient, more...

Types:
fearmongering, propaganda, demagoguery, more...

Phrases:
ad captandum (vulgus), ad captandum vulgus, more...

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Similar:
receptary, acclamatory, admissory, acclaiming, acclamative, capitulatory, onside, pleading, contestatory, suscipient, more...

Types:
fearmongering, propaganda, demagoguery, more...

Phrases:
ad captandum (vulgus), ad captandum vulgus, more...



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