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I hate giving free candy to children, but I will do so if it will placate that wailing brat of yours.
To placate is to calm, pacify, or mollify.Example : "The airline gave out free drinks in an effort to placate angry travelers."Example : "In between, I placate her with more cake."(Sarah Miller in Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller.)
Miserable is an adjective, and placate is a verb, so they are not antonyms.
Appease is a verb meaning to pacify, calm, soothe, placate, assuage, or quiet. Example sentence: Perhaps you can appease the customer with a discount coupon in return for her stress in this situation.
Your Children Placate You from Premature Graves was created in 2006.
If the answer is directed at the Book of Mormon, the answer is "no." The word "placate" does not appear in this book of scripture.
Placate means appease or pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions; "the appeasing concessions to the Nazis at Munich."
(the verb propitiate is used to mean appease, atone, or placate)"Mary stopped criticizing her boss, and this propitiation eventually earned her a promotion."
When I get angry, my brothers have to placate me. Although it sought to placate Hitler, the appeasement at Munich allowed him to continue his aggression without any real opposition. The babysitter could not placate the bawling baby.
quiet, satisfy, mollify, pacify
Annoy, irritate, enrage, anger.
Placate is to apease, to make someone happy, as in ending a fight, you agree with them just to shut them up. Nice way to say kiss ass.