conciliate
Mancuso struck a conciliatory tone in an interview late last month.
The Deputy Prime Minister tried to sound conciliatory towards the rebels.
I had intended to adopt a more conciliatory approach, but his whole manner made me angry.

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conciliatory | American Dictionary

conciliatory
adjective
us/kənˈsɪl·i·əˌtɔr·i, -ˌtoʊr·i/
intended to show that you care about the feelings or opinions of someone who is angry or upset with you:
Fitzwater struck a conciliatory tone, saying he didn’t think anybody was to blame.

conciliation

noun[ U ]us/kənˌsɪl·iˈeɪ·ʃən/
Conciliation, not confrontation, is the key to ending the conflict.

Examples of conciliatory

conciliatory
His contract with his readers is founded on a less conciliatory method of presenting new words and concepts.
Conciliatory policy was followed by military operations and so on.
His conciliatory blend of piety and erudition as well as his medical expertise made him an imperial favourite.
A liberal majority asserted the sovereignty of the assembly but in a moderate, conciliatory way.
My inversion of what might be properly termed "atavistic" has a conciliatory point.
These are important steps in reconciling the citizen and the state - the third major conciliatory need identified above.
Even later in the century, condescension is sometimes able to retain its traditional, conciliatory quality.
Rather, it is part of a strategy that is genuinely conciliatory.
The youthful experience may have also inclined him toward a more conciliatory disposition.
While communitarian societies often have strong conciliatory institutions and processes, these tend to emphasise social conformity rather than equality and justice.
In these encounters with no object of exchange, relation is still transacted; whether that relation is adversarial or conciliatory, it still has substance. 15.
Second, it rested upon men acknowledging the worth of women, and adopting their conciliatory forms of verbal sociability.
Gold concluded the debate on a satirically conciliatory note.
The early and still conciliatory stage of the dialogue is set in the region of the sharp keys.
The more conciliatory and development oriented approach in dealing with the violence in the south is indicative of just such a change in response.
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