[
US
/əˈpizmənt/
]
[ UK /ɐpˈiːzmənt/ ]
[ UK /ɐpˈiːzmənt/ ]
NOUN
- the act of appeasing (as by acceding to the demands of)
How To Use appeasement In A Sentence
- And like past challenges to civilization, such barbarism thrives on Western appeasement and considers enlightened deference as weakness, if not decadence.
- Today we are faced with a particularly grotesque form of appeasement.
- This policy of appeasement goes wider than religious minorities. The Sun
- So it was that the scholar began his researches at the abbey, continuously aware of the three novices who toiled at the drive-mill and the fourth novice who invited glare-blindness atop the ladder to keep the lamp burning and adjusted-a situation which caused the Poet to versify mercilessly concerning the demon Embarrassment and the outrages he perpetrated in the name of penitence or appeasement. A Canticle for Leibowitz
- It precluded the possibility of appeasement or consolation. Times, Sunday Times
- Appeasement and compromise will turn enemies into friends, if groveling and self-abasement do not first drive friends into the enemy camp. Farewell to America's China Station
- You say, "Whereupon they will view the present coolist campaign as badly as the 1930s appeasement of German power. WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
- The first tack, known as Plan A, is the latest version of Ottawa's appeasement strategy.
- Christina analogized the sensation to the phantom limb phenomenon - she still has that nagging sense that something about school needs appeasement.
- I think that pacifism and appeasement are the politics of the naive and foolish.