placate
verb (used with object)
to appease or pacify, especially by concessions or conciliatory gestures.
placates
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present tense formof placate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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It’s a position that by now must feel familiar to Melania Trump — her husband provokes while she placates.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 27, 2018
It reassures the people who count on us that we're back on the straight and narrow, it placates the wronged party, and, ideally, it leads to self-reflection and improved behavior.
From Golf Digest ● Oct. 30, 2017
So British Gas will be hoping this new scheme placates the government while ensuring it holds on to millions of customers who don't switch and who have traditionally paid over the odds for their energy.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2017
Still, James is by no means the hardest-luck N.B.A. star, having won titles with the Miami Heat in 2012 and 2013 — even if that hardly placates his critics.
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2016
For nothing ever placates them, nothing ever moves to a look of approval that ring of bleak and contemptuous Faces.
From Trivia by Logan Pearsall Smith
