cajolery
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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
Yet Birge underestimated Robert Sproul, one of the few people who could outmatch Ernest Lawrence in cajolery.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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
In what did this little Lauzun show special merit? and what attracted women who pursued and sought his favour through cajoleries and gifts?
From Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 by Barine, Arvede
By means of wiles and cajoleries utterly inimitable, she could extract money and presents from adults from whom the haughty Cleopatra would not even have solicited a kiss.
From Too Old for Dolls A Novel by Ludovici, Anthony M. (Anthony Mario)
He entered, walking more like an Englishman than a Venetian, elegantly attired, and uttering compliments which my humility forced me to regard as ill-employed cajoleries.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second by Gozzi, Count Carlo
Surely among these there would be one who—amenable to cajoleries or to promises—would prove to be the instrument sent by God to save the Stadtholder from an assassin's dagger!
From The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
