propitiate

to placate or appease

The two sons, plying their angry father with cheesy neckties for Christmas, were hardly able to propitiate him the father already had a drawer full of ones he had never worn before or ever planned to.

Him Von Schmidt desired to please and propitiate because from him could be obtained the

Bond markets, those invisible deities that debt reduction is designed to propitiate, could never be confident that debt triggers will actually reduce government debt.

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