propitiation
Example Sentences
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“But she completely devolves to where she goes into weakness and propitiation around the girls, and it’s strange where she ends up. I didn’t see it coming.”
From New York Times
At the moment, the party is awkwardly split between disgust for Trump and propitiation of him.
From The New Yorker
The ideal is a lone figure, kneeling in solemn propitiation, with no sight of rival film crews, or of selfie sticks, or anything else that brings self-consciousness or artifice to the scene.
From The New Yorker
As the disease worsened, my kidney demanded steady propitiations of minerals and hormones offered through an injection here, a pill or powder there.
From New York Times
H. Spencer, discussing adversely A. Comte’s opinion that fetichistic conceptions are formed by the higher animals, relates the following observation concerning a retriever who had learned for herself to perform an ‘act of propitiation.’
From Project Gutenberg
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
