propitiatory

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There was a brief Cabinet crisis, in which Premier Solh shuffled his ministers in a faintly propitiatory manner.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ancestors are invoked who around her as she starts the propitiatory dance.

From Time Magazine Archive

Various propitiatory ceremonies are performed by specialists to secure its good-will.

From Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Thurston, Edgar

Days were shortening, so that by the time George had finished his tea, which included a propitiatory offering of doughnuts, the boom of beetles sounded in the street.

From A Drake by George! by Trevena, John

Buckley spat in a propitiatory manner toward seven small bushes, and conversationally informed the northwest corner of the canvas top on a nearby schooner that he, Jim Buckley, had decided to take along a woman.

From The Westerners by White, Stewart Edward