[
US
/əˈpizɪŋ/
]
[ UK /ɐpˈiːzɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /ɐpˈiːzɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions
the appeasing concessions to the Nazis at Munich
placating (or placative) gestures
an astonishingly placatory speech
How To Use appeasing In A Sentence
- There is a difference, too, between appeasing men of violence and seeking to limit their appeal, just as the leaders of global terror must be separated from those who could become their followers.
- They were created with the aim of appeasing Indian nationalism and preventing India's eventual independence.
- In a feeble gesture toward appeasing cardiologists everywhere, I sopped some of the fat off the top with more paper towels.
- Read it if you want to know the cost of appeasing our enemies, and especially if you're still not quite sure just who are enemy is (hint, it's not us).
- Sometimes they indulge false hopes that by lying low, truckling, appeasing, they can avoid danger and strife… And this is what seems to have happened in Spain.
- Then the little beggar, electric with fear to every hair tip, crouches and snarls menacingly and almost at the same time whimpers appeasingly at the storm-monster outside. CHAPTER XXVII
- Another annoying trend is to ask for an exorbitant amount in the hope that a small amount will be offer as a means of appeasing the aggrieved person.
- They would dispute that they are appeasing him.
- Ghandi's passive resistance to British rule, however, which was really the embodiment of soul force, was unsuccessful in appeasing the masses, because they understand no other agent of possession than that of brute force. The Political Situation in India
- He brings up that “hot new lit” rag again, then says, again appeasingly? Hollywood Savage