(v. t.) To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to still; to pacify; to dispel (anger or hatred); as, to appease the tumult of the ocean, or of the passions; to appease hunger or thirst.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mention of discrimination on the basis of categories such as ethnicity, migration status, culture, economic situation or age as a protected status were also scrapped from the document, in an attempt to appease the African and Arab groups.
(2) In a sign of anger on the Tory right at the change, the former defence secretary said the policy had been "made on the hoof" to appease a small and vocal minority.
(3) More here: UK regulator urges banks to speed up swaps mis-selling compensation 8.40am GMT More reaction to the decision to send riot police to evict people from the offices of Greece's former state broadcaster this morning , starting with journalist Nick Malkoutzis: Nick Malkoutzis (@NickMalkoutzis) 5 mths after flicking switch on public broadcaster ERT, gov't tries to settle issue by sending riot police to remove remaining staff #Greece November 7, 2013 Nick Malkoutzis (@NickMalkoutzis) While #ERT will be off air for good after police intervention, the stain of how its closure has been handled won't wash away easily #Greece November 7, 2013 Lady Mondegreen (@amaenad) Like a mean stupid dog appeasing a cruel master, the Greek government wants to lay ERT's limp body at the troika's feet.
(4) The MEK's supporters say it was banned as a move by the Clinton administration to appease the Iranian government.
(5) It ranges from cold warriors to appeasers," said one of the European officials.
(6) As for Britain, any prime minister who meets News International executives 24 times in just over a year, as David Cameron admitted this month, is at least partly in the business of appeasement rather than government.
(7) Probably, Corbyn and his MPs want to appease xenophobia in Labour heartlands, at whatever price of principle, to keep their seats warm at Westminster.
(8) While the reshuffle may be partly to appease fans who resent his position as a figurehead, it could also be seen as a tacit admission that Ashley got a big football decision horribly wrong last season, in deciding not to replace Alan Pardew and almost suffering relegation as a result.
(9) Critics say this is part of a broader, dubious attempt to appease the Kremlin and boost bilateral trade.
(10) These negative feelings and negative self-images are exploited so as to appease the superego in the face of one's hostile aggression: that one is justified, that there are extenuating circumstances for one's hatred and destructiveness.
(11) Everton insist they do not have to cash in on players this summer to appease the bank, with the next season's record-breaking television deal worth an extra £20m for each Premier League club and bringing greater stability to the finances at Goodison Park.
(12) Alistair Darling attempted to appease critics who feared the tax on bonuses would prompt defections from the City by insisting the 50% tax rate on bonuses of more than £25,000 would be paid by the banks rather than employees.
(13) Thompson will be hoping that the proposed measures will go far enough to appease the Conservatives' desire to clip the corporation's wings.
(14) The case against the Anglo-French appeasers and the Polish colonels' regime over the failure to prevent war is a good deal stronger than against the Soviet Union, which perhaps helps to explain the enthusiasm for the new revisionism in both parts of the continent.
(15) Paterson, who has previously said significant global temperature rises of 1-2.5C would only be modest and who claimed he was sacked as minister to appease the “green blob” , is to call for a repeal of the act unless other countries adopt similar carbon-cutting laws.
(16) The memory of the massacre clearly galvanised David Cameron, who was never going to be accused of the appeasing policies of the former foreign secretaries Douglas Hurd and Malcolm Rifkind.
(17) His hopes for the cure of diseases by transplantation and drugs to appease pain and aid sleep have both become inherent features of contemporary medicine and yet these were predictions he was making over 300 years ago.
(18) If this really is a progressive coalition, it should not be prepared to appease the financial markets by inflicting suffering in some of the poorest parts of this country.
(19) Around 60% of customers are on variable tariffs, and the lack of competitive pressure on prices for these customers is another reason why the Competition and Markets Authority is investigating this market.” Npower’s price cut may go some way towards appeasing its customers after research from Which?
(20) "I say to them, you will never ever appease the rightwing media and to try demeans you and our party."
Hush
Definition:
(v. t.) To still; to silence; to calm; to make quiet; to repress the noise or clamor of.
(v. t.) To appease; to allay; to calm; to soothe.
(v. i.) To become or to keep still or quiet; to become silent; -- esp. used in the imperative, as an exclamation; be still; be silent or quiet; make no noise.
(n.) Stillness; silence; quiet.
(a.) Silent; quiet.
Example Sentences:
(1) The exam hall crackles with a hushed excitement as the papers for our last ever exam are taken in.
(2) Those whose ears catch the idle chatter from the more indiscreet members of Ed’s office have let drop that the leader was reportedly “furious” with Andy for raising not-so-oblique criticisms of the ‘hush now’ approach to party policy, and he could face the chop.
(3) But Britain’s hushed response in a string of cases showed that despite the lip service to human rights they were “not one of our top priorities … the prosperity agenda is further up the list”, as a top official conceded of foreign policy in general.
(4) It’s kind of kept under the radar, hushed, so it needs to be talked about.” People needed to know, she added, that abortion restrictions had real victims.
(5) I suppose people do need to talk about the Troubles, but they don’t need to do it in such a hushed manner.
(6) Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar's name is mentioned in hushed tones among most Yemenis, and he rarely appears in public.
(7) It's one thing for critics and curators to single out the next rising star from China, expecting hushed reverence from the general public, but quite another for us to genuinely engage with the art of China past and present.
(8) At 11.35am, within a packed and hushed court 1, Redknapp and his fellow defendant, the former Portsmouth football club owner Milan Mandaric, hugged in the glass-walled dock after the female jury foreman responded with quiet answers of "not guilty" to each count.
(9) But it is also the incantatory darkness of dreams and visions, death and memory, as an observing consciousness creeps into the "blinded bedrooms" of the town's inhabitants, hushing and inviting us on: "Come now, drift up the dark, come up the drifting sea-dark street now in the dark night seesawing like the sea ... " Blind Captain Cat is dreaming of long-ago sea voyages and long-dead lovers; twice-widowed Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard of her henpecked husbands; Organ Morgan of musical extravaganzas; Polly Garter of babies; Mary Ann Sailors of the Garden of Eden; Dai Bread of "Turkish girls.
(10) But he was carried off and a kind of hush descended."
(11) Back at the hotel for the photo shoot, a great hush falls over the suite.
(12) A hush descends whenever we hear the voice of Lorraine, whose resentment towards her mother remains palpable.
(13) In a front-page comment piece, Aluf Benn, the editor-in-chief of Haaretz, wrote: "Instead of hushing up the blunder, [gag orders] merely shine a spotlight on it.
(14) After a tense first half, the second act, which includes the depiction of Klinghoffer’s murder, was quieter, with a sole exclamation of “this is shit!” by a woman in the stalls, who was hushed by the rest of the audience.
(15) The compound that oversaw industry during the boom years now has a fading, almost unreadable sign and a deathly hush.
(16) Does a lullaby have to be traditional, or do you find yourself making it up as you go, singing original lyrics to the tune of Hush Little Baby ?
(17) With echoes of the Catholic priest scandal, for decades rabbis have hushed up child sex crimes and fomented a culture in which victims are further victimised and abusers protected.
(18) Rather than a bribe, Ecclestone's defence team claims the $44m payments were hush money.
(19) He is hush-hush about how the portraits will turn out, partly because he hasn’t finished them and partly because he wants to save the big reveal for TV and an accompanying exhibition .
(20) From 12.02pm, they hushed for four and a half minutes – one for each hour Brown was left lying uncovered on Canfield Drive in the midday heat after being shot, a situation which enraged his friends and family.