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Meanings of cajolery in inglés

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Flattery intended to persuade.

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Usage of cajolery in inglés
1
The reply of Mrs. Mel is dashed with a trifle of cajolery.
Evan Harrington — Volume 6
2
She discarded the fruitless effort at cajolery and resorted to undisguised bribery.
The Chronicles of Clovis
3
The name of her honeymoon days was not a cajolery to her.
Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Volume 2
4
The tormentor then tried cajolery and promises, but they were equally futile.
The Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan
5
The cajolery was foolish, if an end was in view; the repression inefficient.
Miscellaneous Prose
6
For the first time in her life Lena condescended to something like cajolery.
Bessie Bradford's Prize
7
At length she capitulated to the combined forces of entreaty, cajolery and insistence.
The Tyranny of Weakness
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Anna replied with a cajolery wonderfully like a sincere expression of her wishes.
Vittoria — Volume 8
9
But I presently perceived that this was a very odious sort of self-cajolery.
Impressions of Theophrastus Such
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She pacified him by doses of cajolery new to her tongue.
Diana of the Crossways — Volume 4
11
Then his daughter may negligently throw him a few moments of charming cajolery.
The Plain Man and His Wife
12
But this cajolery he swept away with a fling of his heavy arm.
Montlivet
13
After a pause, she said with a hesitating attempt at cajolery:
The Emigrant Trail
14
Prayer for an object is the cajolery of an idol; the resource of superstition.
Beauchamp's Career — Volume 4
15
I didn't require too much in the way of cajolery.
The burglar who studied spinoza
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And all his gestures were full of grace and cajolery.
The Old Wives' Tale
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