suasive
Example Sentences
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Although AFL-CIO Boss George Meany, now 82, is hardly a per suasive personal advocate of early retirement, Big Labor has quietly opposed the Pepper bill.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her plottings are too tortuous to be entirely per suasive.
From Time Magazine Archive
Meanwhile, Laski's fame as British Socialism's most suasive intellectual polemicist grew steadily.
From Time Magazine Archive
Soon, then, as Circe mark’d me on my seat Fast-rooted, sullen, nor with outstretch’d hands Deigning to touch the banquet, she approach’d, And in wing’d accents suasive thus began.
From The Odyssey of Homer by William Cowper
IV Ah for the world ere Raleigh's find Never that knew this suasive balm That helps when Gilead's fails to heal, Helps by an interserted charm.
From John Marr and Other Poems by Herman Melville
