placate
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1. placate - Noun
2. placate - Verb
Meaning
Same as Placard, 4 & 5.
To appease; to pacify; to concilate.
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Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes.
There is now doubt in our minds that Nasser, whether he likes it or not, is now effectively in Russian hands, just as Mussolini was in Hitler's. It would be as ineffective to show weakness to Nasser now in order to placate him as it was to show weakness to Mussolini.
Democracy is a con game. It's a word invented to placate people to make them accept a given institution. All institutions sing, ‘We are free.' The minute you hear ‘freedom' and ‘democracy', watch out... because in a truly free nation, no one has to tell you you're free.
That person who's going to a concert for a nostalgic reason, we're not really going to placate. We still play three or four hits every night. Now, we don't play them like the record. We try to find new ways to do it.
When Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation it was not the act of an opportunistic politician issuing a hollow pronouncement to placate a pressure group. Our truly great presidents were tortured deep in their hearts by the race question.
In their rush to placate everyone and offend no one - and in particular to pander to Islam - the Left wants to shut down Christianity.