placated 的定义
pla·cat·ed, pla·cat·ing.
- to appease or pacify, especially by concessions or conciliatory gestures: to placate an outraged citizenry.
placated 近义词
soothe, pacify
更多placated例句
- There is a time and place for a little zoning out, of course, and parents don’t complain too much about a few hours of quiet while the kids are placated with zombies or candy gems.
- Lee worries that even if legislation is enough to placate many Singaporeans, the implications outside the country could be serious.
- That led to his suspension and a flurry of appointments by al-Sarraj aimed at placating Misurata by giving positions and powers to others from the city.
- But consuming anger is not placated by justification, not toward the stranger and not toward the self.
- And it hardly seems that the ones who have not been placated by now are going to change their minds about the guy over this.
- These questions will not be easily dodged; nor will the faithful be placated by casuistry or platitudes.
- But the gay community is unlikely to be placated by either the speech or the venue.
- There are ways given to women whereby men of his type can be placated.
- The Orange societies required to be placated, the Presbyterians to be muzzled, the Catholics to be suppressed.
- Venus was still angry at the memory of Psyche's former honors, and she was not to be placated by any prayers, however sincere.
- The life of her hero had been endangered, and Mrs. Bindle was not to be placated by words.
- "We might just as well get to an understandin'," said the Cap'n, not yet placated.