Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being appeased, quieted, calmed, or pacified; placable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being appeased or pacified; placable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Able to be
calmed orpacified .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of being pacified
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Examples
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So the question today is not whether to appease Iran or not -- but whether Iran is appeasable.
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And if not appeasable, whether its threat can be defeated with acceptable costs.
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That's an entirely legitimate worry, but it's hard to go very far down the road if those enemies refuse even to make a show of being appeasable.
Obama Flambé 2009
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Presumably, it should be attempting to appease the appeasable Eurosceptic press?
Even the Guardian has noticed Richard 2004
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She explained moreover that wherever she happened to be she found a dropped thread to pick up, a ragged edge to repair, some familiar appetite in ambush, jumping out as she approached, yet appeasable with a temporary biscuit.
The Ambassadors 2003
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She explained moreover that wherever she happened to be she found a dropped thread to pick up, a ragged edge to repair, some familiar appetite in ambush, jumping out as she approached, yet appeasable with a temporary biscuit.
The Ambassadors Henry James 1879
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-- Tony blushes her swarthy crimson: Diana, fluttering, rebukes her; but Diana is the appeasable
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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-- Tony blushes her swarthy crimson: Diana, fluttering, rebukes her; but Diana is the appeasable
Diana of the Crossways — Volume 4 George Meredith 1868
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Them he branded, as hypocritical materialists, and the country for pride in her sweetmeat plethora of them: -- mixed with an ancient Hebrew fear of offence to an inscrutable Lord, eccentrically appeasable through the dreary iteration of the litany of sinfulness.
One of Our Conquerors — Volume 3 George Meredith 1868
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Them he branded, as hypocritical materialists, and the country for pride in her sweetmeat plethora of them: -- mixed with an ancient Hebrew fear of offence to an inscrutable Lord, eccentrically appeasable through the dreary iteration of the litany of sinfulness.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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