blarney
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The man known for his charm and Irish blarney — a gift for the gab — was an ardent advocate of stronger U.S.-Canadian relations.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
He was about 5-foot-4 and known for theatrical blarney, greeting friends with a “top o’ the morning” while on walks with his dogs.
From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2021
That’s Digger Phelps, Irish basketball coach with similar blarney skills to Lasorda’s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2021
My primary form of self-care was the constant generation of blarney.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 21, 2019
Well, of course, Maniac knew that most if not all of that was blarney, and, just to make sure, he watched the ball extra carefully.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
But their handiwork caught the eye of another Democrat, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who had come into the Nixon White House as a presidential assistant, and who blarneyed Nixon into endorsing the idea.
From Time Magazine Archive
I don't want to be petted and blarneyed.
From John Bull's Other Island by Bernard Shaw
Then I thanked her, and blarneyed her as well as I was able, although that wasn't much, as I never have been much of a hand with women.
From The Recipe for Diamonds by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne
Without any influence whatever, save his pleasing address and his wide education, he blarneyed the State Department out of a consulate.
From The Goose Girl by Harold MacGrath
He worried through arithmetic and algebra and blarneyed his French and German tutors into making them believe he knew more than he did, but the purely scientific aspects of learning did not interest him.
From Paradise Garden The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment by George Gibbs
Despite blarneying speeches by Evita, a rank & file strike started.
From Time Magazine Archive
"A husband can show his consideration without blarneying," remarked Mrs. Watterly coldly.
From He Fell in Love with His Wife by Edward Payson Roe
I think I have heard something like that before, my blarneying Plantagenet.
From The Iron Game A Tale of the War by Henry F. (Henry Francis) Keenan
And Mrs. Lascelles gets off and goes to discoursin' and blarneying wid 'em: and Oi sees Mr. Forsyth glancin' round and lookin' oneasy.
From Tales of Trail and Town by Bret Harte
"And a very becoming flower a white rose is," she continued, "though I am a bold girl to be blarneying with a young gentleman I met no longer ago than last night."
From The Gentleman from Indiana by Booth Tarkington
