Placating

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

placating
    adj 1: 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" [syn: {appeasing(a)},
           {placating}, {placative}, {placatory}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Placate \Pla"cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Placated}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Placating}.] [L. placatus, p. p. of placare to placate,
   akin to placere to please. See {Please}.]
   To appease; to pacify; to concilate. "Therefore is he always
   propitiated and placated." --Cudworth.
   [1913 Webster]

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