emollience
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- emolliency noun
Example Sentences
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At the cabinet meeting in the morning, Boris Johnson had promised colleagues he would be a model of “gelatinous emollience” towards everyone, including Labour MPs and the EU27.
From The Guardian
There was very practical domestic political reason for this emollience too.
From The Guardian
Behind the scenes, she and her chancellor now approach these monstrously complex 28-way negotiations with more realism and emollience than anything she has said until now.
From The Guardian
And so my social unease was cosseted by the gentle emollience of vague superiority.
From New York Times
We do not have time for public-facing emollience.
From The Guardian
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