Crossword-Solution: PLACATED
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Placated | imp. & p. p. | of Placate |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PLACATED | anagram | ELACTPAD |
We have 8 clues for the answer “PLACATED”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Gained the good will of | 1 answer |
| Tossed a bone to | 1 answer |
| Smoothed feathers | 2 answers |
| Made calm | 3 answers |
| "Happy now?!" | 4 answers |
| Appeased. | 4 answers |
| Mollified | 5 answers |
| Pacified | 8 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PLACATED (5)
Thea was still under the belief that public opinion could be placated; that if you clucked often enough, the hens would mistake you for one of themselves.
Had the job passed him by? A stunned and incensed Hammacher gathered his belongings as his lawyer placated him.
Harran and Presley followed him, trying to dissuade him from going home at that time of night and in such a storm, but Annixter was not to be placated.
For the rest of the term he tormented Philip cruelly, and, though Philip tried to keep out of his way, the school was so small that it was impossible; he tried being friendly and jolly with him; he abased himself, so far as to buy him a knife; but though Singer took the knife he was not placated.
Had they possessed the sneaking, cringing, treacherous character traditionally ascribed to people of mixed blood--the character which the blessed institutions of a free slave-holding republic had been well adapted to foster among them; had they been selfish enough to sacrifice to their ambition the mother who gave them birth, society would have been placated or humbugged, and the voyage of their life might have been one of unbroken smoothness.
Quotes with PLACATED (3)
A tingling in her spine warned her the path that lay ahead was dangerous, but her curiosity placated her, driving her onward against her instincts.
I say “illusion” of choice because, in many cases, the nature of their choices hardly reaches the level of will, but of merely perfunctory activity. For the most part, their desires are not too strong, they are too weak, apathetic and easily placated. They often can be tempted into doing Nothing.
For a quarter-century British governments had tried and failed to combine economic growth, increased social service provision and a high level of employment. The second depended ultimately on the first, but when difficulty arose, the first had always been sacrificed to the other two. The United Kingdom was, after all, a democracy whose votes, greedy and gullible, had to be placated.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, NYT, Universal.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1984–2016).