"placating" in the verb sense
1. pacify, lenify, conciliate, assuage, appease, mollify, placate, gentle, gruntle
cause to be more favorably inclined gain the good will of
"She managed to mollify the angry customer"
"placating" in the adjective sense
1. appeasing, placating, placative, placatory
intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions
"the appeasing concessions to the Nazis at Munich"
"placating (or placative) gestures"
"an astonishingly placatory speech"
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