adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A peaceable and orderly crowd staged a protest outside city hall.
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a peaceable kingdom
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An eagle looking down from above implies a threat whereas a heron flying from A to B suggests a more peaceable purpose.
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Nor is there any question in this case that their behavior is peaceable and orderly.
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So I led a peaceable life, isolated from the intermittent scientific squabbles over who had first rights to which animals.
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The Fermanagh Armstrongs seemed peaceable enough.
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They were peaceable , but none the less enforced clearances.
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Until the 1970s primatologists were busy confirming our prejudices about peaceable apes living in nonviolent societies.