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appeasement
Meaning: the act of calming someone by giving in to their demands
appeasement in a sentence
How appeasement is used in real sentences:
The town council offered a small tax cut as an appeasement to angry residents.
Critics accused the mayor of appeasement when he quietly dropped the new parking fees after a single loud protest.
“Some students called the concession mere appeasement, since the board had yielded just enough to prevent empty rehearsal rooms.”
— from the passage The White Road
Synonyms for appeasement
Other words for appeasement — placation, conciliation and concession — carry the same meaning.
- placation
- conciliation
- concession
Antonyms of appeasement
Words that mean the opposite of appeasement:
- provocation
- resistance
- defiance
Where it comes from
From Old French apaisier 'to bring peace'
Memory hook
APPEASEment — APPEASE + -MENT: the act of making peace by giving in.
Practice appeasement in the app