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US
/ˈmɑɫəˌfaɪ/
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[ UK /mˈɒlɪfˌaɪ/ ]
[ UK /mˈɒlɪfˌaɪ/ ]
VERB
- make less rigid or softer
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make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else
she tempered her criticism -
cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of
She managed to mollify the angry customer
How To Use mollify In A Sentence
- Together, they were able to mollify workers and quietly implement the destruction of thousands of jobs.
- Those who hate the US will continue to hate the US; the kind of people who hate the US, we should have * no* interest in mollifying. Iraqi democracy « BuzzMachine
- She managed to mollify the angry customer
- Part of the aim was to contain worthy claims being made by popular movements, to mollify demands for bread and votes with food for the spirit.
- I raised my hands to mollify him, realising too late that he was in the wrong mood. THE MANANA MAN
- Abasio merely grunted as he went to unhitch Big Blue, leaving it to Olly to mollify Coyote. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
- Brown was ready to mollify the union leaders, with whom he has a long and close association, with a pledge to continue the debate on the issue.
- This need to construct and utilise language in such a way that it cannot be taken as offensive… well, I really never understood the need to mollify language.
- Spermaceti was known, probably from classical times onwards, as a rare and precious unguent, "resolutive and mollifying," as M. Pomel, "chief druggist to the late French King Louis XIV," says in his treatise on drugs, translated into English in 1737. More Science From an Easy Chair
- I raised my hands to mollify him, realising too late that he was in the wrong mood. THE MANANA MAN
