Usage of "cajolery" | TermGallery

каталонский

Flattery intended to persuade.

Usage of cajolery in английском

The reply of Mrs. Mel is dashed with a trifle of cajolery. 
 Evan Harrington — Volume 6 

She discarded the fruitless effort at cajolery and resorted to undisguised bribery. 
 The Chronicles of Clovis 

The name of her honeymoon days was not a cajolery to her. 
 Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Volume 2 

The tormentor then tried cajolery and promises, but they were equally futile. 
 The Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan 

The cajolery was foolish, if an end was in view; the repression inefficient. 
 Miscellaneous Prose 

For the first time in her life Lena condescended to something like cajolery. 
 Bessie Bradford's Prize 

At length she capitulated to the combined forces of entreaty, cajolery and insistence. 
 The Tyranny of Weakness 

Anna replied with a cajolery wonderfully like a sincere expression of her wishes. 
 Vittoria — Volume 8 

But I presently perceived that this was a very odious sort of self-cajolery. 
 Impressions of Theophrastus Such 

She pacified him by doses of cajolery new to her tongue. 
 Diana of the Crossways — Volume 4 

Then his daughter may negligently throw him a few moments of charming cajolery. 
 The Plain Man and His Wife 

But this cajolery he swept away with a fling of his heavy arm. 
 Montlivet 

After a pause, she said with a hesitating attempt at cajolery: 
 The Emigrant Trail 

Prayer for an object is the cajolery of an idol; the resource of superstition. 
 Beauchamp's Career — Volume 4 

I didn't require too much in the way of cajolery. 
 The burglar who studied spinoza 

And all his gestures were full of grace and cajolery. 
 The Old Wives' Tale 

cajolery

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каталонский

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Meanings of cajolery in английском