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
It’s the kind of easy way out that he seems to find halfway into the finale, when he turns on the blarney spigot one more time to talk his way into a cushy plea deal.
From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 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
Well, of course, Maniac knew that most if not all of that was blarney, and, just to make sure, he watched the ball extra carefully.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
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
I don't want to be petted and blarneyed.
From John Bull's Other Island by Bernard Shaw
She presented Joy-of-Life with a banana which she had blarneyed from our Italian fruit-vender, and gave me a little jar of cream, begged or bullied from the milkman in the early dawn.
From Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road by Katharine Lee Bates
No creature like the one that blarneyed Mother Eve could be here!
From Attention Saint Patrick by Murray Leinster
"Yes, and I must beware of being blarneyed."
From Poor Relations by Compton MacKenzie
Despite blarneying speeches by Evita, a rank & file strike started.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Ah, now, my dear; it isn’t blarneying at all!” laughed Wyn.
From Wyn's Camping Days or, The Outing of the Go-Ahead Club by Amy Bell Marlowe
Waiting for their turn, the fish-women were blarneying with customs men or idlers who stood about looking at the big fish with the curiosity of landlubbers.
From Mayflower (Flor de mayo) A Tale of the Valencian Seashore by Arthur Livingston
“Mistress Lyon,” he said indolently, but with the soft, well-anointed utterance of the blarneying islander, which does not die away till the third generation of the poorest exile from Erin, “now, misthress dear, consider!”
From The Dew of Their Youth by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
"Don hasn't forgotten his blarneying ways, either;—just the same lad who went away from us so many months ago."
From Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman by Willie Walker Caldwell
