appease
Example Sentences
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An attempt by aviation industry body Iata to defuse the situation - by stressing that its member airlines were keen to restore operations - failed to appease the Venezuelan government.
From BBC
Faculty are then pressured to appease students rather than uphold standards.
“It’s gotta be warm and almost womblike in a way that you feel very appeased as soon as you walk in, and then you bring your guard down,” says Bole, a native of France.
It sent a message the opposite of: Let’s appease Russia to avoid World War III.
This is a new version of the age-old income redistribution game of taxing people too much but then trying to appease them with tax credits or one-time cash payments.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
