"placate" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It can be used to describe the act of trying to appease or pacify someone or something. For example: "In an attempt to placate the angry customer, the store manager gave them a full refund for the product."
Fallon, the former Guantánamo investigative task force deputy commander, remembered Miller and other "two-stars that wanted three stars" attempting to placate Fallon's dissatisfied, skeptical investigators by holding up Zuley as their very own law-enforcement veteran.
Now, as the day of reckoning approaches, he will have to decide whether to placate foreign lenders by agreeing to the terms of another rescue programme – conditions that though painful will keep Greece in the single currency – or jettison the hardliners in his own party.
David Cameron will use the balm of marriage to placate Tory rebels later, promising a marriage tax-break designed to bribe co-habitees to the altar with £150 a year.
No politician can placate such fury while expressing a nuanced view of what British policy can practically achieve in the Middle East.
In an effort to placate the hard-left faction of his Syriza party, Greek prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, said on Saturday that the government was on a final stretch towards a deal but would not accept "humiliating terms".
Whatever he comes up with – even if he offered free winter holidays in the Caribbean for every citizen of the UK courtesy of Herman von Rompuy – he will never placate his party's Better Off Outers.
The Saville report will placate the overwhelming majority of nationalists not only in Derry but throughout both states on the island of Ireland.
To placate unionist anger, Sinn Fein offered to re-route their parade away from the town's war memorial and a local Methodist church out of which many of the IRA's local victims were buried during the Troubles.
The volley of bullets did nothing to placate the crowd, and the men kept shooting, a look of panic on their faces.
It would be "ludicrous," said Blanaid Denman, to remove the nests of a bird that barely exists, just to placate grouse shoots.
And Tsipras will have to placate hard-left militants in his party while also selling the deal to disappointed voters.
