accommodationist

American  

[uh-kom-uh-dey-shuh-nist] / əˌkɒm əˈdeɪ ʃə nɪst /

noun

1. a person who finds it expedient to adapt to the opinions or behavior of the majority of people, especially as a means of economic or political survival.

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adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of such a person.

   They criticized the senator's conduct as being accommodationist.

Etymology

Origin of accommodationist

First recorded in 1960–65; accommodation + -ist

Example Sentences

I did whole drafts of the film where I made the magical society true villains, and I said, ‘Get thee away from me’ to this integrationist, accommodationist point of view, but I just find that so disrespectful to my ancestors.

From New York Times

So folks like Derrick Bell and Kimberlé Crenshaw looked at the law and saw that there were parts of it that were very accommodationist.

From Salon

“He was known as an accommodationist, not as a civil rights rabble-rouser.”

From Washington Post

But to radicals disenchanted with the mainstream civil rights movement, she was “weak and accommodationist,” Brown-Nagin writes.

From New York Times

“To tell the story of the Black church is something of a risk even to a scholar as secure as Gates, for voices in the arena of racial justice have long diminished religion as overly safe and accommodationist,” Jon Meacham writes in his review.

From New York Times