appeaser
Example Sentences
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Andrew Lipka, Yale class of ’78, cited a quote, attributed to Winston Churchill: An appeaser is someone who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2025
The statesman said: “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2023
I see a rigid, defensive lasher-out in a marriage with a self-negating appeaser — and beg you to get individual counseling.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 11, 2022
Any U.S. response must be calibrated to avoid being “an appeaser or a provocateur,” he said.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 19, 2021
Come, good Sir Thomas More, to court let's hie; You are th' appeaser of this mutiny.
From Sir Thomas More by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)
