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

Kim looked far more confident compared to their last meeting in Singapore, while Trump welcomed Kim with his palm facing up - a sign, said body language expert Karen Leong, that was almost supplicatory.

From Reuters

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

Some of the delegates were surprised by the supplicatory tone of the Islamists, many of them religiously indoctrinated guerrilla fighters used to living lives of isolation in the desert.

Like most of its kind, it is formal, sentimentally prolix, and supplicatory, yet not without a certain pleasant interest.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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