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US
/ˈmɑɫəˌfaɪ/
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[ UK /mˈɒlɪfˌaɪ/ ]
[ UK /mˈɒlɪfˌaɪ/ ]
VERB
- make less rigid or softer
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make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else
she tempered her criticism -
cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of
She managed to mollify the angry customer
How To Use mollify In A Sentence
- Rather than opposing free trade, they're trying to mollify its effects and work out how we can live with it.
- If Obama turns his back on the Republicans and blatantly foregoes bipartisanship just so he can mollify his base, he, along with the rest of the Dems, will regret it!!!! Clinton's advice to Obama: Forget about Republicans
- There are serious flaws to the agreement that prevent it from being anything more than a feel-good measure designed to mollify the Green Party.
- He was just kind of mollifying him and they're interpreting that in a kind of interesting way. CNN Transcript Nov 29, 2005
- I'm not much good for anything else,’ he added ruefully, hoping that an admission of his poor seamanship would mollify the other boy.
- He has a remarkable ability to grasp sports politics and to mollify fury; he did so last year when his position was under attack, and came out smiling.
- Ingredient: DNA Original Fluid, Lavender, Hamamelis, Elastic Element, Micro - collagen Protein, Hair Follicle Mollify.
- The tranquil uses of red and orange brickwork, with their auburn hedges, mollify the harshness of the sky above Pissarro's characteristically low horizon.
- Nature reserves were set up around new power stations to mollify local conservationists.
- The economist's not so Grand Experiment - while thus far mollifying economic adjustment - has acted significantly to exacerbate financial and speculative excess.