placatively
advEtymology From placative + -ly.
1
In a manner that placates or pacifies.
- "All right," she said, placatively. "I didn't mean to bother you, dear."1916, Booth Tarkington, chapter 29, in Seventeen:
- Synonyms
- calmingly
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