Placate
verb
To make someone less angry or upset by doing something to please them.
She tried to placate her angry father by offering to clean the house.
Often appears as...
- placate someone's anger
- placate one's feelings
verb
To make someone less angry or upset by doing something to please them.
She tried to placate her angry father by offering to clean the house.
Often appears as...
- placate someone's anger
- placate one's feelings
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Appeal
Use 'placate' when actions are taken to soothe someone's emotional state.
He bought her flowers to placate her after their argument.
Pro Tip 2/3Conflict Resolution
'Placate' often implies resolving a tense or difficult situation with gentle actions.
The customer service agent managed to placate the dissatisfied client with a refund.
Pro Tip 3/3Temporary Solution
Placating might not solve the issue but can quickly calm the situation temporarily.
Acknowledging the error helped to placate the crowd until a solution was found.
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On spaghetti sauce -...
right in the middle howard is not so easily placated howard is a man of certain degree of intellectual standards and this was not good enough for him and he this question bedeviled him for years and he would think it through and say what was wrong why could we not make sense of this experiment with diet pepsi
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Choice, happiness and...
and they simply point and they go for 10 percent, right in the middle. Howard is not so easily placated. Howard is a man of a certain degree of intellectual standards. And this was not good enough for him, and this question bedeviled him for years. And he would think it through and say, "What was wrong?
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The electrifying...
She placated the men with song and prayer, until they had no desire to harm her. Truth’s speeches impacted thousands of people in communities across the nation, but her activism went far beyond public speaking. During the Civil War, she became involved with the Union Army,
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Clay Shirky: How...
A local official literally prostrated himself in the street, in front of these protesters, in order to get them to go away. Essentially to say, "We will do anything to placate you, just please stop protesting in public." But these are people who have been radicalized,
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How social media can...
literally prostrating yourself in the street in front of these protesters in order to get them to go away essentially to say we will do anything to placate you just please stop protesting in public but these are people who have been radicalized because thanks to the
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Music and creativity in...
while others could placate a person into a benign, unthinking stupor. According to Plato, only very specific types of music were beneficial to a person's ethos. One should only listen to music that promotes intelligence, self-discipline, and courage,
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How one journalist...
she ignored the organizers’ attempt to placate Southern bigotry by placing Black women in the back, and marched up front alongside the white women. She also chafed with other civil rights leaders, who saw her as a dangerous radical.
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Freeman Hrabowski: 4...
when I really didn't want to be there and I was in the back of the room being placated by doing math problems, I heard this man say "If we can get the children to participate in this peaceful demonstration here in Birmingham,
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The power of the placebo...
hinting at a history of placating troubled patients. Placebos had to mimic the real treatments in order to be convincing, so they took the form of sugar pills, water-filled injections, and even sham surgeries.
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Safari Live - Day 348 PIPE...
like she's trying to placate her parents and bring them back together she's looking towards Tandy now she's calling down
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On spaghetti sauce -...
right in the middle howard is not so easily placated howard is a man of certain degree of intellectual standards and this was not good enough for him and he this question bedeviled him for years and he would think it through and say what was wrong why could we not make sense of this experiment with diet pepsi
Video examples
Choice, happiness and...
and they simply point and they go for 10 percent, right in the middle. Howard is not so easily placated. Howard is a man of a certain degree of intellectual standards. And this was not good enough for him, and this question bedeviled him for years. And he would think it through and say, "What was wrong?
Video examples
The electrifying...
She placated the men with song and prayer, until they had no desire to harm her. Truth’s speeches impacted thousands of people in communities across the nation, but her activism went far beyond public speaking. During the Civil War, she became involved with the Union Army,
Video examples
Clay Shirky: How...
A local official literally prostrated himself in the street, in front of these protesters, in order to get them to go away. Essentially to say, "We will do anything to placate you, just please stop protesting in public." But these are people who have been radicalized,
Video examples
How social media can...
literally prostrating yourself in the street in front of these protesters in order to get them to go away essentially to say we will do anything to placate you just please stop protesting in public but these are people who have been radicalized because thanks to the
Video examples
Music and creativity in...
while others could placate a person into a benign, unthinking stupor. According to Plato, only very specific types of music were beneficial to a person's ethos. One should only listen to music that promotes intelligence, self-discipline, and courage,
Video examples
How one journalist...
she ignored the organizers’ attempt to placate Southern bigotry by placing Black women in the back, and marched up front alongside the white women. She also chafed with other civil rights leaders, who saw her as a dangerous radical.
Video examples
Freeman Hrabowski: 4...
when I really didn't want to be there and I was in the back of the room being placated by doing math problems, I heard this man say "If we can get the children to participate in this peaceful demonstration here in Birmingham,
Video examples
The power of the placebo...
hinting at a history of placating troubled patients. Placebos had to mimic the real treatments in order to be convincing, so they took the form of sugar pills, water-filled injections, and even sham surgeries.
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 348 PIPE...
like she's trying to placate her parents and bring them back together she's looking towards Tandy now she's calling down
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Quote examples
Mitt Romney
American Politician
In recent years, we have seen the United States back away from pressuring the Castro regime, under the misguided view that placating them with an open hand would yield progress. That naivete has invited only more cruelty and oppression in return.
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Jim Crace
English Writer
Storytelling enables us to play out decisions before we make them, to plan routes before we take them, to work out the campaign before we start the war, to rehearse the phrases we're going to use to please or placate our wives and husbands.
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Paul Heyman
American Producer
I always tell Brock Lesnar the truth. I don't appease Brock Lesnar. I don't placate Brock Lesnar. When Brock Lesnar asks me for an opinion, I give to him an honest opinion that I'm willing to back up with facts, with theory.
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Bruce Hornsby
American Musician
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.
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Oneohtrix Point Never
American Musician
Eccojams are a very simple exercise where I just take music I like, and I loop up a segment, slow it down, and put a bunch of echo on it - just to placate my desire to hear things I like without things I don't.
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Anthea Butler
American Educator
Graham's legacy is not as a maverick or a trailblazer. It is the legacy of a man who used Jesus as a tool to placate the masses so that the status quo of conservative white America could remain firmly in place.
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Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
Canadian Businessman
A lasting two-state solution requires two credible partners, and not just one side - Israel - taking superficial steps simply to placate world opinion.
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Milo Yiannopoulos
British Activist
In their rush to placate everyone and offend no one - and in particular to pander to Islam - the Left wants to shut down Christianity.
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Mary Manin Morrissey
American Celebrity
Often we lose our identity trying to please or placate others.
Quote examples
Mitt Romney
American Politician
In recent years, we have seen the United States back away from pressuring the Castro regime, under the misguided view that placating them with an open hand would yield progress. That naivete has invited only more cruelty and oppression in return.
Quote examples
Jim Crace
English Writer
Storytelling enables us to play out decisions before we make them, to plan routes before we take them, to work out the campaign before we start the war, to rehearse the phrases we're going to use to please or placate our wives and husbands.
Quote examples
Paul Heyman
American Producer
I always tell Brock Lesnar the truth. I don't appease Brock Lesnar. I don't placate Brock Lesnar. When Brock Lesnar asks me for an opinion, I give to him an honest opinion that I'm willing to back up with facts, with theory.
Quote examples
Bruce Hornsby
American Musician
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.
Quote examples
Oneohtrix Point Never
American Musician
Eccojams are a very simple exercise where I just take music I like, and I loop up a segment, slow it down, and put a bunch of echo on it - just to placate my desire to hear things I like without things I don't.
Quote examples
Anthea Butler
American Educator
Graham's legacy is not as a maverick or a trailblazer. It is the legacy of a man who used Jesus as a tool to placate the masses so that the status quo of conservative white America could remain firmly in place.
Quote examples
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
Canadian Businessman
A lasting two-state solution requires two credible partners, and not just one side - Israel - taking superficial steps simply to placate world opinion.
Quote examples
Milo Yiannopoulos
British Activist
In their rush to placate everyone and offend no one - and in particular to pander to Islam - the Left wants to shut down Christianity.
Quote examples
Mary Manin Morrissey
American Celebrity
Often we lose our identity trying to please or placate others.
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