dovish
adjective
(especially of a person in public office) advocating peace, compromise, or a conciliatory national attitude.
Example Sentences
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“Seidel would have given us the makers of Auden’s tigerish blazer and dovelike shoe,” he writes, “but he was never impressed enough that Auden didn’t.”
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2015
Percy's position, while certainly not dovelike, was far less militant than Douglas'.
From Time Magazine Archive
As in other of his books, in Unclay there are the simple-minded clergyman whom nothing shocks, the dovelike virgin, the innocent poor farmer, the rich farmer like a boar.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the Assembly this week, Russia's Andrei Vishinsky angrily rejected the compromise plan, and just as vituperatively departed from Moscow's usual dovelike cooings at India.
From Time Magazine Archive
She found it hard to be dovelike under this repeated admonition.
From Manslaughter by Alice Duer Miller
