placating

How To Use placating In A Sentence

• When are we going to learn in this country that placating the minority to the detriment of the law-abiding community will only end in chaos?
• When she raised her head, Clarke was in the far corner of the room with his hands, palms out, placatingly in front of him. Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
• These people put their time in by performing numerous tasks, including starting, marshaling, first aid, placating "finicky" golfers, janitorial work, cart maintenance and, of course, lessons to beginning golfers. USATODAY.com - Readers cast their votes, weigh in on worst jobs
• He said placatingly, `We do have to work together, after all. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
• Let it be," said Cadfael placatingly, seeing how the boy laboured at the thing he could not understand. A River So Long
• And for a very good reason: the genre is crapulous, status-quo-reifying, herd-placating "family fare. Why Juno Is Loathsome
• Placating protesting workers may help calm a tense situation.
• placating (or placative) gestures
• The cave's acoustics intensified the sound, causing her to become fully aware of the headache she was trying to ignore in the hope of placating it.
• It offers him a political twofer: placating his corporate donors while winning the hearts and votes of the true believers who helped the president achieve a Second Coming of his own.