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cajolery

[kuh-joh-luh-ree] / kəˈdʒoʊ lə ri /








NOUN
soft soap
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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

Flattery and cajolery are eternal parts of the diplomatic tool kit.

From Washington Post • May 2, 2017

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

Yet Birge underestimated Robert Sproul, one of the few people who could outmatch Ernest Lawrence in cajolery.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik