humoring

The tail-wagging golden retrievers and teens humoring their parents cleared out of the way.

I poked my head into the twins’ room, humoring my sisters as they sorted through a pile of unfolded laundry in the middle of the full-size bed.

Like, there’s just this boss in charge who, like, doesn’t really seem to know what he’s doing, and everyone’s just kind of humoring him.

As I have grown older, I have come to realize he wasn’t being humored by me as much as he was humoring me.

"What's the downside for humoring him for this little bit of time? No one seriously thinks the results will change," said one senior Republican official.