cajolery

If the new rules fail to produce a majority, an unholy spectacle of threats, cajolery and attempted deals will surely fill the weeks before the convention.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2020

Unlike other foreign policy issues, where Mr. Trump seems neither informed nor particularly interested, he has wrestled with the balance between threats and cajolery with North Korea.

From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2018

Earlier in the day, Boehner’s leadership team was expressing confidence that days of cajolery on behalf of Boehner’s measure would pay off.

From BusinessWeek ● Jul. 29, 2011

"Resist the incumbent cajolery, ignore the veiled threats and protestations of doom, and move forward to allocate the 700 MHz resource to the feisty upstarts," Seaboard said.

From Reuters ● Mar. 1, 2011

At this uncomfortable juncture, I perceived with no little confusion that Bono watched us, grinning a wide, jackanapes smile; which cajolery threw me into more distress.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

But not even in the sacred name of Moslem broth erhood would the rich old Aga fall for the Faroukian cajoleries.

From Time Magazine Archive

But thy cajoleries shall not now cloud the eyes of my mind, as did once thy false promises.

From The Decameron, Volume II by J. M. (James Macmullen) Rigg

Irving, who had welcomed him on former occasions, was just dying,—a victim, as Carlyle thought, to fashionable cajoleries.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" by Various

St. Quentin, I care little for either your threats or your cajoleries.

From Helmet of Navarre by Bertha Runkle

No entreaties nor cajoleries at first availed to make them leave their refuge.

From The Story of Rouen by Sir Theodore Andrea Cook