noun

• The action or process of appeasing.

  ‘a policy of appeasement’

  More example sentences

  • ‘This is not a time for political accommodation or popular appeasement.’
  • ‘I think that pacifism and appeasement are the politics of the naive and foolish.’
  • ‘They're willing to play chicken, because they've been winning for more than a century, and our appeasements have only whetted their appetites for more concessions.’
  • ‘I do not believe in vile acquittals, phony appeasements, easy forgiveness.’
  • ‘If that is not appeasement, I'd like to know what you call it.’

  Synonyms

  conciliation, placation, pacification, propitiation, palliation, allaying, reconciliation

  satisfaction, fulfilment, gratification, indulgence, provision

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