cajolery

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

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

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

His expression of tragic sorrow did not alter in the slightest degree under the rain of sugared remonstrances and cajoleries that the two women directed upon him.

From Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett

So matters went on day by day, each day bringing its fresh instalment of threats promises and cajoleries, each morning its batch of disappointments.

From The Transvaal from Within A Private Record of Public Affairs by Sir Percy Fitzpatrick

Like the Tibetans, she menaced and threatened us at first, then she turned to us with smiles and cajoleries, entreating us to stay, and her seduction was harder to resist.

From The Unveiling of Lhasa by Edmund Candler