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Meanings of appeasement in English

Portuguese
política de apaziguamento
Catalan
assossegament
Spanish
política de apaciguamiento

The act of appeasing (as by acceding to the demands of)

política de apaziguamento
Usage of appeasement in English
1
Some advocate surrender and appeasement, others outright resistance, others simply suggest flight.
Children of Time
2
Her offer of a state visit is appeasement of a reactionary bully.
The Guardian
3
Milosevic offered an opportunity to atone for appeasement in the Munich Agreement.
The Irish Times
4
He compared the situation with the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia and appeasement.
Reuters
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Before, the unstoppable march of ethnic cleansing, of international indecision and appeasement.
The Irish Times
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At that time the policy of appeasement was tried, and it failed.
The Communist Threat in the Taiwan Area
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The BJP denies bias but says it opposes appeasement of any community.
Reuters
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Perhaps some vitamin deficiency in his growing body was screaming for appeasement.
A Confederacy of Dunces
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Somewhere within him was a higher appeasement of love than mere possession.
Burning Daylight
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For example, trying to set up a parallel financial payment system is appeasement.
Reuters
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Critics said appeasement would only embolden the militants to take over other areas.
Reuters
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The BJP says it is opposed to appeasement of any community.
Reuters
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The party denies any bias but says it opposes appeasement of any community.
Reuters
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His arms went out, openhanded, in a hopeless gesture of appeasement.
The darkest road
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Now the duo surpassed their iconic colleague in his appeasement of the underworld.
The outfit: the role of chicago's underworld in the shaping of m...
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Some kind of appeasement or something? I wasn't trying to be a smartass.
Walking dead
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