cajolery

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

But even these were easier to bear than the little playful cajoleries of Mrs. Ricketts on his supposed successes.

From The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James

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

She gave him a quick look and knew that he was not going to be swayed this time by her little cajoleries.

From The Best Policy by Flower, Elliott

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