Definition of "placable" []

• Easily calmed or pacified; tolerant. (adjective)

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• "It is notorious that you may with impunity call a placable Frenchman"
• "Oddly enough, he thought that this, too, was to be a "placable" play, written to amuse and stimulate, but calculated to wound nobody's feelings."
• "Oddly enough, Ibsen believed, or pretended to believe, that The League of Youth was a "placable" piece of foolery, which could give no annoyance to the worst of offenders by its innocent and indulgent banter."