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appeasement

the act of appeasing (as by acceding to the demands of)

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Six example sentences with appeasement, each labelled with its topic.

  • The 1938 policy of appeasement handed over a border region in the hope that no further claim would follow.

    History

  • Giving the loudest client a discount every quarter is appeasement, and the other accounts learn to shout too.

    Business

  • Therapists warn that constant appeasement of a difficult relative teaches the relative that pressure always works.

    Psychology

  • Critics called the tax concession appeasement, since the protesters who won it announced a second demand the following week.

    Politics

  • The essay asks whether appeasement is ever a duty, or whether yielding to a threat only rewards the one who makes it.

    Philosophy

  • Giving the star more shots was appeasement, and the coach knew it, but the alternative was losing him in the summer.

    Basketball

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