1 to make someone less angry or upset, or to make something less severe or more gentle:
She was not mollified by his apology.
In such private settings, there is no public to mollify, and there is less need to overstate the case; one may presumably speak one's mind.
While this may be understandable, such a fudge is unlikely, in the medium to long term, to mollify the insurance industry.
They will not be mollified by being told that the law says that the limit is such-and-such in terms of numbers.
The ethics advisory group does not inform the public; on the contrary, it tries to mollify public opinion.
Provided that they continue to do so, those people may be satisfied and mollified.
The farmers are dissatisfied, and they are in no way mollified by the additional £10 calf subsidy.
I am not much mollified by that intervention.
Ninety-nine times out of 100, the angry citizen is mollified.
