Get to know Conciliatory better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like compromising or soft.
Conciliatory in a sentence
Conciliatory meaning
Willing to conciliate, or to make concessions.
Synonyms of Conciliatory
Using Conciliatory
- The main meaning on this page is: Willing to conciliate, or to make concessions.
- Useful related words include: compromising, soft, propitiatory, propitiative.
- In the example corpus, conciliatory often appears in combinations such as: more conciliatory, conciliatory tone, conciliatory approach.
Context around Conciliatory
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 11 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 1 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Conciliatory
- In this selection, "conciliatory" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, new, consensual, overly, tone, toward and approach stand out and add context to how "conciliatory" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1894 a conciliatory gesture to and a more conciliatory approach to. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "conciliatory" sits close to words such as abelian, acer and agrippina, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with conciliatory
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Biden himself has struck a more conciliatory tone. (8 words)
But TBH, Gisele was conciliatory to Tom during her chat! (10 words)
He answered critical questions in a calm and conciliatory tone. (10 words)
The revised legislation aims to strike a balance between the right to strike and the need to maintain essential services, opting for a conciliatory approach rather than resorting to harsh penalties or restrictions on freedoms. (35 words)
Critics accuse Moon of being overly conciliatory to Beijing by hesitating to impose travel restrictions on Chinese visitors in the early stages of the outbreak,” Klingner told The Epoch Times in an email. (33 words)
The very origins of Labor Day grew out of the Pullman strike of 1894, a conciliatory gesture to the labor movement made by President Grover Cleveland and Congress after the strike ended. (32 words)
The analysis of that speech amplified a message that was neither something new, conciliatory (which would have been news)? (19 words)
But TBH, Gisele was conciliatory to Tom during her chat! (10 words)
Example sentences (20)
Biden himself has struck a more conciliatory tone.
But TBH, Gisele was conciliatory to Tom during her chat!
Justice sounded more conciliatory toward Senate Republicans Tuesday as he laid out plans for his campaign.
Sen. Paula Simons called Gingras’s comments “rather conciliatory,” in light of the test it ran earlier this year.
The analysis of that speech amplified a message that was neither something new, conciliatory (which would have been news)?
The fashion critic Robin Givhan describes this style of dress as “conciliatory rather than confrontational.
The third GOP debate showed a softer and more conciliatory side of Christie.
Yet both Støre and his foreign minister, Anniken Huitfeldt, have opted for a more conciliatory approach to all the concerns, and to China itself.
After accusing Unifil of failing in its mission to keep armed fighters out of the border area, Israel adopted a more conciliatory tone earlier on Wednesday.
Deportations to countries like Cuba and Venezuela could be complicated by icy relations, though Venezuela’s Maduro issued a conciliatory message congratulating Trump Wednesday.
He answered critical questions in a calm and conciliatory tone.
Niccol has taken a more conciliatory tone with the union.
Now Iran appears to be striking a somewhat more conciliatory tone, at least on Syria.
The revised legislation aims to strike a balance between the right to strike and the need to maintain essential services, opting for a conciliatory approach rather than resorting to harsh penalties or restrictions on freedoms.
The very origins of Labor Day grew out of the Pullman strike of 1894, a conciliatory gesture to the labor movement made by President Grover Cleveland and Congress after the strike ended.
A complex balance and synthesis must be found between mandate assertion, and consensual-conciliatory way of working with groups, without which, there will be no mandate to assert.
After starting some high-profile fights with Speaker Nancy Pelosi and tweaking Democratic colleagues on Twitter early in her tenure, Ocasio-Cortez has been more conciliatory toward other House Democrats.
Critics accuse Moon of being overly conciliatory to Beijing by hesitating to impose travel restrictions on Chinese visitors in the early stages of the outbreak,” Klingner told The Epoch Times in an email.
Despite demands from Fox News executives that he pre-tape the segment and strike a conciliatory tone, Carlson barely sounded apologetic, knowing he had the full backing of the Murdoch heir.
Ed Davey’s first conference speech as Lib Dem leader took on a conciliatory tone, with ample references to past mistakes.
Common combinations with conciliatory
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: