Intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions.
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Examples for "placating "
Examples for "placating "
1 He held his free hand up, palm out, in a placating gesture.
2 Turkey is not in the business these days of placating old allies.
3 As a means of placating this very sensitive class the correspondent writes:-
4 They make money, and no one dies, Sandra said, placating him gently.
5 The measure was aimed at placating Israel's ally the United States.
1 The Chevalier did not change his smooth, placatory tone as he replied:
2 Only then will we install some pride back into this placatory movement.
3 The answer was neither antagonistic nor placatory ; it was merely colorless.
4 She gave a placatory grunt and the hammering was not resumed.
5 Once in a while, placatory , she gave in to his entreaties.
1 Finally Silas went home defeated, with a last word, half condemnatory, half placative .
1 Swan himself was far from sure he wanted to do any appeasing .
2 And in the end he says: by way of appeasing his conscience:
3 Here he found considerable difficulty in appeasing the indignation of Lady Lucretia.
4 It was about keeping the coalition government together and appeasing the Greens.
5 The sense of the necessity for appeasing justice reveals itself in sacrifices.
6 Agamemnon spoke of appeasing the gods and needing a safe passage home.
7 Xi is under pressure to stay cool, while appeasing hardliners back home.
8 This made the task of appeasing him very difficult to Mrs. Woodward.
9 I shall, therefore, eat even this unclean food for appeasing my hunger.
10 Maybe she should have politely shut him down instead of appeasing him.
11 To do this for Trump is not simply appeasing , but legitimising his regime.
12 Romney issued a warning about the risks of appeasing the United States' No.
13 The bishop of London had the merit of appeasing their fury and resentment.
14 But the strategy, while appeasing the masses, is not without risks.
15 A third has suffered the same fate without appeasing the bandit.
16 All her energies had been devoted to appeasing the Conservative party's Brexit hardliners.
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