cajolery

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Cajolery is as vital a quality as conviction, and some Tories wonder whether Thatcher has the skills necessary to keep dissident ministers in line.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cajolery and intrigue had become a second nature, stronger than the original; and it never occurred to her that her wiles, in her mental and bodily decadence, were transparent as they had once been artful.

From At Last by Harland, Marion

So long as it endures, the World will continue to be rul'd by Cajolery, by Injustice, and by Imposture.

From Books and Characters French and English by Strachey, Giles Lytton

Cajolery first, and God knows by what means afterwards.

From The Truants by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)