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
“Joyride,” a grievously schematic blend of odd-couple comedy and life-affirming road movie, traverses the Irish countryside with a small degree of charm and a boatload of blarney.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2022
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
“You are right to laugh, Captain Short. For a while there, I did believe in all that under-the-rainbow crock-of-gold blarney, but now I know better. Now I know about the hostage fund.”
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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
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 MacGrath, Harold
A little group round Schilsky blarneyed and expostulated.
From Maurice Guest by Richardson, Henry Handel
"Yes, and I must beware of being blarneyed."
From Poor Relations by MacKenzie, Compton
I don't want to be petted and blarneyed.
From John Bull's Other Island by Shaw, Bernard
Despite blarneying speeches by Evita, a rank & file strike started.
From Time Magazine Archive
You don't mean what you say one bit, and it is a relief to me to know that it is all flummery--you silly, hot-pated, blarneying Pat!
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis
Moore's bow over it was positively blarneying in its deference.
From The Colonel of the Red Huzzars by Scott, John Reed
He looked every whit as Irish as his name, and he was scolding and blarneying the birds by turn.
From Leerie by Sawyer, Ruth
"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 Tarkington, Booth
