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

I saw that her face was confused and supplicatory… It was a very unusual sort of face for her.

From Best Russian Short Stories by Seltzer, Thomas

At this moment, Raeburn rushed to the window, with the view of calling for assistance; and one supplicatory cry, which, however, was unattended to, he did emit.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 14 by Various

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