make nice

phrase

: to be deliberately and often insincerely polite and agreeable

… must make nice to politicians they cannot stand …

—Ken Auletta

Examples of make nice in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Everyone’s on their toes wondering whether Paramount CEO David Ellison and California state attorney general Rob Bonta make nice or settle in the meantime, and the ways this could potentially play out aren’t exactly popular in Hollywood. — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1957, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for make nice

• imprecise
• sacrifice
• advice
• allspice
• concise
• device
• entice
• excise
• fordyce
• precise
• suffice
• dice