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

Not the infant Samuel, who, in spite of his supplicatory attitude, found no pity.

From Dr. Jolliffe's Boys by Feller, Frank

"You cannot see my father, mother," she said in a broken and supplicatory tone.

From Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire by Ainsworth, William Harrison

All improvements have to be urged in apologetic, almost in supplicatory tones.

From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) by Morley, John