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peaceable

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adjective

1Inclined to avoid argument or violent conflict.
‘they were famed as an industrious, peaceable, practical people’
- ‘And though their numbers are small compared to the peaceable majority, they nevertheless constitute a growing hinterland for this militancy.’
- ‘And because I am a peaceable citizen, I should easily meet his criterion that no immediate damage would be done by allowing this.’
- ‘In the Golden Age (which Hesiod says was long before his own time) men were naturally peaceable, and for that reason there was no war.’
- ‘Nor did he attack peaceable Cheyennes in ignorance.’
- ‘It points out how neither the left nor the right has been able to resist enacting its moral programs as law, and neither is content to leave peaceable citizens alone.’
- ‘The first, which has even been recognised by Canadian law, is that freedom of speech should be subject to such limits so as not to be detrimental to peaceable society.’
- ‘Manners, for her, are one of the ways we show respect for others, mind our own business, and maintain a peaceable and kind society.’
- ‘That anger, however, will not lead me into a terrorist response, any more than it will the vast majority of our overwhelmingly peaceable citizens.’
- ‘He is overly gentle and peaceable, perhaps Roman Catholic and perhaps a man with Portuguese blood.’
- ‘I found myself in the midst of a huge peaceable army of helpers in a thousand uniforms - military and civilian.’
- ‘Okay, but then how would an airline figure out that he's a peaceable fellow except by, well, identifying him?’
- ‘As a passenger in other people's vehicles, I have seen how normally peaceable and polite people become aggressive and rude behind the wheel of a car.’
- ‘Reportedly, the otherwise peaceable crowd pelted him with plastic bottles and bran muffins.’
- ‘She asked: ‘Why do you seek to destroy this city where there are so many peaceable people?’’
- ‘It is a, so far, peaceful place filled with, I think, peaceable people.’
- ‘Indeed, he was most peaceable as he accepted the chain of office, though he did remind us of a Hollywood boxer at one point.’
- ‘Despite my ferocious exterior, I'm a reasonably peaceable soul.’
- ‘Instead they chose to trap and taunt a group of peaceable people; the only trouble I saw was caused by local kids, not by protestors.’
peace-loving, unwarlike, non-belligerent, non-violent, non-combative, non-aggressive, conflict-free, easy, easy-going, placid, gentle, meek, mild, inoffensive, good-natured, even-tempered, amiable, amicable, friendly, affable, genial, civil, cooperative, conciliatory, pacific, pacifist, anti-war, dove-like, dovish
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1. 1.1Free from argument or conflict; peaceful.
  ‘the mainly peaceable daily demonstrations for democratic reform’
  ‘On Sunday and Monday, the police fell back to let unpermitted demonstrations proceed to their peaceable conclusions.’
  ‘There's now a way to move forward through entirely peaceable and democratic means.’
  ‘This clearly acknowledges the possibility that innocent civilians going about their peaceable business may be stopped, hassled, even arrested, merely for resembling someone naughty.’
  ‘The holding of a demonstration or vigil, however peaceable, had nothing to do with the right of passage, and the justices had therefore been right to convict.’
  ‘At worst, the outcome could be wholesale slaughter on a scale that makes the current level of daily mayhem look like the peaceable kingdom.’
  ‘They now have the tools to find peaceable solutions to conflict.’
  ‘There can be no such thing as a peaceable secession.’
  ‘But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.’
  ‘Elections happen on time and votes are accurately counted and peaceable changes of government occur as a matter of unremarkable course.’
  ‘Throughout these poems, the implicit argument is: Why can't the whole world be as peaceable as my little corner of it is?’
  ‘It'll not modify my parking habits but I'll be a lot less inclined to condemn and far more likely to engage the farmer in a peaceable conversation when the situation arises.’
  ‘But because the subordination is inspired at root by anxiety and denial, it is not a peaceable subordination.’
  ‘Others went on to lead normal, peaceable lives.’
  ‘The Viking city in 975 AD is a fairly peaceable sort of place.’
  ‘While most of the Culture lives in this peaceable way, some spend their life fighting amongst more primitive civilizations.’
  ‘We don't need to look very far to see this: our own, supposedly peaceable country provides enough examples.’
  ‘For now, the religious factions are facing off in a fairly rarefied and generally peaceable manner.’
  peaceful, strife-free, harmonious, amicable, amiable, friendly, cordial
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