Words and phrases that have a meaning related to placating: (129 results)
Often used in the same context:
appeasing, mollifying, kowtowing, pandering, assuaging, pacifying, alienating, wooing, demonizing, curry favor, angering, coddling, persuading, betraying, sidelining, acquiescing, vilifying, ignoring, ingratiate, groveling, riling, reviling, courting, spiting, allaying, soft pedaling, capitulating, currying, cozying, browbeat, ridiculing, cowing, provoking, allying, antagonize, estranging, propping, emboldening, belittling, resenting, hating, subjugating, scaring, inflaming, quelling, hectoring, dissuading, sympathizing, patronizing, rationalizing, tolerating, europeanize, annoy, caving, enraging, distract, convince, extracting, conciliating, wresting, toadying, carping, infuriate, crucifying, diluting, undermining, endear, sparing, befooling, wimping, oppressing, despising, goading, defusing, genuflecting, pretending, seducing, persecuting, accommodating, spooking, sabotaging, humoring, resisting, wheedling, cajoling, overthrowing, displeasing, acceding, jettisoning, perpetuating, marginalize, reining, aping, satisfy, articulating, abandoning, bellyaching, diverting, isolating, caricaturing, luring, answering, anybody, anyone, anything, arguing, ascending, asking, attacking, attention, avail, backtracking, bearing, beholding, bidding, borrowing, bribing, bringing, browsing, brushing, buying
Appears in the definition of:
conciliation, placatingly, placation, placative, propitiation
Synonyms:
Also try:conciliative, conciliatory, placatory
— Adjectives for placating: more, starry, worth, much, little, direct
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