mollification

They tell people what they think they want to hear and prefer mollification to confrontation.

They may rationalize it as controversy avoidance or respect for the flag or audience mollification or economic strategy or business exigency.

“Your first kill,” said Bono to me gently, with an air of kindness and a cadence of mollification.

This to me is not moderation but mollification.

The Clinton campaign seems to have gone into emergency millennial mollification mode, too.