supplicatory

Example Sentences

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In Moscow, officials are playing down Putin’s supplicatory position.

From Washington Post • Mar. 19, 2023

And yet while Dylan’s lyrical gift is wild, copious, and immoderate, Cohen’s is precise, supplicatory and cloistral.

From The Guardian • Nov. 19, 2016

Her supplicatory tone and attitude, though they were somewhat assumed, proved to what a height Musa had recently risen as a personage.

From The Lion's Share by Bennett, Arnold

Laddie stood and looked into his face with something of the supplicatory appeal that was on the countenance of the man he had just left.

From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Caine, Hall, Sir

She besought him, more pathetically and earnestly, with her little supplicatory hand, than she could have done in any words.

From Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles