placability

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for placability
Noun
  • Lifting them out of the ground requires some gentleness to avoid damaging them.
    Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Politics depends on coalitions of the willing, but who, exactly, comprises the constituency for gentleness?
    Michael Luo, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Yet electing to be private doesn’t amount to complaisance or complicity.
    Lesley M.M. Blume, Town & Country, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Sammy’s awareness of his mother’s infidelity, his father’s complaisance, and how both were relieved by his creative Boy Scout merit-badge projects and fantasies requires a separate article.
    Armond White, National Review, 16 Nov. 2022
Noun
  • According to PetMD, a cat’s tail shaped like a question mark—standing upright with a curved tip—is typically a sign of friendliness and curiosity, not hostility.
    Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
  • For any sportsman living in the Eastern half of the nation, one of the great things about a hunt in the West, in my opinion, is the chance to sample the matchless friendliness and hospital ity of the people there.
    Robert Merchant, Outdoor Life, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • People can deliberately cultivate more conscientiousness, boost their sociability or soften their neurotic edges.
    Dave Winsborough, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The Poodle combines intelligence with sociability.
    Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
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“Placability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/placability. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.

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