mollify 的定义
mol·li·fied, mol·li·fy·ing.
- to soften in feeling or temper, as a person; pacify; appease.
- to mitigate or reduce; soften: to mollify one's demands.
mollify 近义词
pacify, soothe
更多mollify例句
- Last year ProPublica wrote about the world of work-at-home customer service, spotlighting a largely unseen industry that helps brand-name companies shed labor costs by outsourcing the task of mollifying unhappy customers.
- For $62,500, the county could move the statue and just maybe satisfy — or at least mollify — all sides.
- The Buccaneers’ ability to recruit and mollify Brady while winning a championship illustrated a new line teams may have to straddle.
- Other students argue that the discovery of remains cannot fully mollify public consciousness surrounding the case.
- Meanwhile, on Friday, Holder made a round of calls to Capitol Hill in an attempt to mollify concerned lawmakers.
- The appointments of Al-Sisi and Mekki are no doubt intended to mollify such concerns.
- He was actually soft as mush, straining to mollify Hispanics without roiling his own nativist base.
- So Obama was sending out Biden to further mollify the gay community without having to actually take a stand himself.
- Meanwhile the Athenian and Rhodian envoys got hold of the consul and tried by ingenious arguments to mollify his anger.
- This, of course, did not tend to mollify the spirit of the man to whom it was written, or to make him gracious towards his wife.
- This treatise was presented to Prince Maurice; but it did not mollify the indignation he had conceived against the Remonstrants.
- We shall see if this will mollify the tone of the Times which ill-treated poor Lord Grey shamefully yesterday morning.
- His explanation that he was Bellerophon, the stick Pegasus, and the cats the three heads of the Chimra failed to mollify me.