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.

Pence offered bland mollifications, forced to calm and cajole European countries that, in the post-Cold War order, until recently never had cause to question the support of the United States.