blandishment

Example Sentences

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No one was ever quite sure what motivated Smith’s apostasy, whether personal resentment of his former ally FDR or the financial blandishments of his new friends.

From Los Angeles Times

Today’s adult women bear the emotional scars of childhoods dictated by bureaucratic tyranny, and they are deaf to the government’s new blandishments to breed.

From Washington Post

It sucked in Hough’s parents as it did many counterculture youths of the ’60s, attracted with blandishments of spiritual “revolution” and suspicion of the status quo; “Systemite” was a member’s most feared accusation.

From Washington Post

While peddling to those who are suffering from the blandishments of advertising and material culture seems, well, suspect, Ms. Kondo has exquisite taste.

From New York Times

War muffles brute inequities of power and capital, and entrances you with blandishments of honor.

From New York Times