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How to pronounce appeaser in English?

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Type Words
Type of conciliator, make-peace, pacifier, peacemaker, reconciler
Derivation appease


An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile--hoping it will eat him last.

Examples of appeaser

appeaser
Good, and let me reassure you that I am not a defeatist, an appeaser or a pacifist.
From the post-gazette.com
So I don't know if George Bush is calling his own secretary of defense an appeaser.
From the washingtonpost.com
Republicans want voters to see Obama as an appeaser bent on weakening our security.
From the ocregister.com
So when you go to see the film, just remember that Bertie was a bit of an a-a-appeaser in his day.
From the thisislondon.co.uk
Though a scared mom, I am no appeaser, pacifist or isolationist.
From the time.com
John Key is an appeaser and his continual embrace of the white man's burden is nothing more than pandering.
From the nbr.co.nz
One left wing biased author and appeaser trying to tell a right wing guy that the right wing guy is biased.
From the economist.com
What Neville Chamberlain-yes, he was an appeaser, Chris.
From the scienceblogs.com
Eventually, of course, he came home from London in something like disgrace, dismissed as an appeaser and defeatist.
From the time.com
More examples
  • Someone who tries to bring peace by acceding to demands; "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile--hoping it will eat him last"--Winston Churchill
  • Appeasement is commonly understood to refer to a diplomatic policy aimed at avoiding war by making concessions to another power.James P. Levy, Appeasement and rearmament: Britain, 1936-1939, Rowman and Littlefield, 2006 It has been described as "... ...
  • A person who appeases