appeaser
绥靖者,姑息者,安抚者,平静者
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ap·peased, ap·peas·ing.
- : to bring to a state of peace, quiet, ease, calm, or contentment; pacify; soothe: to appease an angry king.
- : to satisfy, allay, or relieve; assuage: The fruit appeased his hunger.
- : to yield or concede to the belligerent demands of in a conciliatory effort, sometimes at the expense of justice or other principles.
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Examples
The spinoff will appease investors who long advocated for the move, citing a stubbornly low valuation for the group company.
The announcement of additional work to better serve pedestrians, cyclists and transit riders while also seeking to reduce the harm to adjacent parkland appears aimed at appeasing critics of the highway expansion project.
First State National Park consists of seven sites spread out across all three counties, a little bit of everything to appease everyone, which seems so Delawarean.
Winston Churchill once said “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile—hoping it will eat him last.”
From the GOP campaign trail, Rick Santorum insisted no apology was necessary, and Newt Gingrich called Obama an “appeaser.”