Sample Sentences for
appease
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    On the morning after the village crier's appeal the men of Umuofia met in the marketplace and decided to collect without delay two hundred and fifty bags of cowries to appease the white man.  (source)
    appease = satisfy (make less angry)
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    ...the Deep Magic will be appeased.  (source)
    appeased = satisfied (its demands met, so it will not be angry or upset)
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    Enough guavas to appease even the greediest Island santo for life!  (source)
    appease = satisfy
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    Descend and appease your hunger with our bread and quench your thirst with our wine.  (source)
    appease = satisfy or calm
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    Have I become, suddenly, one of those who must be appeased?†  (source)
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    Here he is, a master at playing people, at managing their needs his way and on his behalf, and yet there's no appeasing this boy, nothing works.†  (source)
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    Because of its thinness the mouth and eyes looked disproportionately large, and the eyes seemed filled with a murderous, unappeasable hatred of somebody or something.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unappeasable means not and reverses the meaning of appeasable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    We don't have sex, we barely touch, but we are husband and wife in a marital bed, which appeases Amy for now.†  (source)
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    Mr Merdle didn't want him, and was put out of countenance when the great creature looked at him; but inappeasable Society would have him—and had got him.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inappeasable means not and reverses the meaning of appeasable. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure. This is a rare derivative of the word. Usually people use "unappeasable."
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    Billee wagged his tail appeasingly, turned to run when he saw that appeasement was of no avail, and cried (still appeasingly) when Spitz's sharp teeth scored his flank.†  (source)
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    15:18 A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She appeaseth" in older English, today we say "She appeases."
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    Third, by an impressive expression of the public will and without regard to partisanship, we are committed to the proposition that principles of morality and considerations for our own security will never permit us to acquiesce in a peace dictated by aggressors and sponsored by appeasers.†  (source)
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    Inappeasably indignant with her for her triumphant discovery of Mrs. Pegler, he turned this presumption, on the part of a woman in her dependent position, over and over in his mind, until it accumulated with turning like a great snowball.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inappeasably means not and reverses the meaning of appeasably. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure. This is a rare derivative of the word. Usually people use "unappeasably."
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