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conciliatory

/kuhn-sil-ee-uh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee/US // kənˈsɪl i əˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i //UK // (kənˈsɪljətərɪ, -trɪ) //

和解的,和谐的,和解性的,和解性

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : tending to conciliate: a conciliatory manner; conciliatory comments.

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Examples

  • Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro seemed to take a step back from the ledge on Thursday night, releasing a conciliatory statement two days after pledging to ignore Supreme Court rulings and declaring that only God could remove him from office.

  • While he has yet to confirm if he will run in 2022, the former president’s speech struck a more conciliatory note than he has for several years, reaching out to the business community and the political center, Ribeiro says.

  • This basically leaves socially distanced walks as the most attractive way to catch up with people IRL, but even this conciliatory option presents problems.

  • This prompted a second disciplinary letter from Greene and a slightly more conciliatory one from me.

  • Beyond expressing their relief, some industry insiders I spoke to over the past week were struck by Apple’s newly conciliatory tone this month and are hopeful for a more open dialog with the Cupertino tech giant.

  • Barack Obama, running as a conciliatory pragmatist in 2008, did even better with some 50 percent.

  • Their relationships with each other range from conciliatory to borderline antagonistic.

  • Zawahiri was conciliatory but stern, commanding ISIS to leave Syria and go back to Iraq, where the group was founded.

  • Vastly outnumbered by halfwits and fellow travellers, I reached for the most conciliatory point available.

  • Instead of making conciliatory gestures towards the opposition, the government escalted the violence.

  • We expressed our disgust at the situation and the officer made the conciliatory suggestion that we might be able to go on anyway.

  • His dealings with the Continental princes, mainly in regard to shipping and commerce, were conciliatory and businesslike.

  • At first Wall's answers were conciliatory, but naval preparations still went on.

  • This the King, under the guidance of his Puritan Councillors, proceeded to do in the most conciliatory and least offensive way.

  • No answers were sent to North's conciliatory proposals; all alike agreed in referring them to the continental congress.