appeasers
Those who pacify
Appeasers are people who try to pacify hostile forces by giving them what they want rather than confronting them.
The term carries heavy negative weight from the 1938 Munich Agreement, when European leaders yielded to Hitler's territorial demands.
Calling someone an appeaser implies they're trading away principle for a false peace: The senator dismissed the diplomats as appeasers willing to sacrifice allies for a deal.
People who work jointly
- quislingsCollaborators with enemy occupiers
- capitulatorsThose who yield defeat
- surrenderersThose who give up
- selloutsCapacity crowds or betrayers
enablers · defeatists · yielders · Chamberlain · Munich · Vichy · submitters · bootlickers
Those who arrange agreements
- mediatorsConflict resolution facilitators
- envoysOfficial diplomatic representatives
- ambassadorsOfficial diplomatic representatives
- peacemakersThose who resolve conflicts
intermediaries · conciliators · arbitrators · deal-makers · emissaries · delegates · go-betweens · facilitators
Lacking courage or resolve
- weak-kneedLacking resolve or courage
- lily-liveredWeak and easily frightened
- timidLacking courage or confidence
- cravenContemptibly lacking nerve
gutless · feckless · soft · naive · gullible · foolish · shortsighted · misguided
Gentle cooing birds
- pacifistsThose opposing all warfare
- noninterventionistsOpponents of foreign meddling
- isolationistsThose opposing foreign involvement
- anti-warOpposed to armed conflict
collaborators
People who work jointly
- quislingsCollaborators with enemy occupiers
- capitulatorsThose who yield defeat
- surrenderersThose who give up
sellouts · enablers · defeatists · yielders · Chamberlain · Munich · Vichy · submitters · bootlickers · sycophants
negotiators
Those who arrange agreements
- mediatorsConflict resolution facilitators
- envoysOfficial diplomatic representatives
- ambassadorsOfficial diplomatic representatives
peacemakers · intermediaries · conciliators · arbitrators · deal-makers · emissaries · delegates · go-betweens · facilitators · statesmen
spineless
Lacking courage or resolve
- weak-kneedLacking resolve or courage
- lily-liveredWeak and easily frightened
- timidLacking courage or confidence
craven · gutless · feckless · soft · naive · gullible · foolish · shortsighted · misguided · compliant
doves
Gentle cooing birds
- pacifistsThose opposing all warfare
- noninterventionistsOpponents of foreign meddling
- isolationistsThose opposing foreign involvement
anti-war · neutralists · peaceniks · Gandhi · nonviolence
- deceiversliar, liars, deceiver, fraud, fake
- mediatorsmediator, mediators, arbitrator, arbitrators, negotiator
- sycophantssycophant, sycophants, toady, toadies, bootlicker
appeasershawks
Keen-eyed birds of prey
resisters · war hawks · fighters · warmongers · hard-liners
appeasersresisters
Those who actively oppose
freedom fighters · Winston Churchill · defenders · liberators · crusaders
- appeasement policySatisfying aggressors through concessions
appease, appeasement, appeased, appeases, appeaser, unappeased, appeasements