But basically, modern and uniform codes were mealymouthed or at best meliorative.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of American Law] Reference

Calling them special interests sounds pejorative, and independent group sounds meliorative.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Would You Call Attack-Ad Funders?] Reference

Israel's critics are often the same people who spent years denouncing George W. Bush's antagonistic attitude and are thrilled with Barack Obama's meliorative rhetoric.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roman Hruska Lives!] Reference

To our mind, the best way to answer that question is to ponder this one: What evidence is there that Obama has had a meliorative effect on Jeremiah Wright or other like-minded supporters?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cyber-Slapp] Reference

That knowledge does not teach quietism, not at all; but we must learn to distinguish between meliorative action and millennial action.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Republic - All Feed] Reference

In times of crisis such as the collapse of an economic system there are bound to be social and political movements for change-ranging from meliorative to systemic.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The requirements of decency are imperiously present in meliorative enterprise as in other lines of conduct, and exercise a selective surveillance over the details of conduct and management in any enterprise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference

Their effect might be traced through the entire range of that schedule of non-invidious, meliorative enterprise that is so considerable a feature, and especially so conspicuous a feature, in the overt scheme of life of the well-to-do.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference

Beyond these the same animistic sense shows itself also in such attenuations of anthropomorphism as the eighteenth-century appeal to an order of nature and natural rights, and in their modern representative, the ostensibly post-Darwinian concept of a meliorative trend in the process of evolution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference

That Emma has been flippant rather than villainous is the saving grace that makes Mr. Knightley’s reprimand seem not only tolerable but meliorative, an appeal to a latent, better self, one informed by the "natural charity" of her "heart," as A. Walton Litz puts it (141).    From Wordnik.com.  [Boxing Emma; or the Reader’s Dilemma at the Box Hill Games] Reference

Sounds meliorative.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference