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blandishment

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blan·dish  (blndsh)
tr.v. blan·dished, blan·dish·ing, blan·dish·es
To coax by flattery or wheedling; cajole.
[Middle English blandishen, from Old French blandir, blandiss-, from Latin blandr, from blandus, flattering; see mel-1 in Indo-European roots.]
blandish·er n.
blandish·ment n.
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Noun1.blandishment - flattery intended to persuade
cajolery, palaver
flattery - excessive or insincere praise
2.blandishment - the act of urging by means of teasing or flattery
wheedling
enticement, temptation - the act of influencing by exciting hope or desire; "his enticements were shameless"
ingratiation, insinuation - the act of gaining acceptance or affection for yourself by persuasive and subtle blandishments; "she refused to use insinuation in order to gain favor"
Translations
blandishment
n → Schmeichelei f


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Their condition of domiciliary comradeship put her, as the woman, to such disadvantage by its enforced intercourse, that he felt it unfair to her to exercise any pressure of blandishment which he might have honestly employed had she been better able to avoid him.
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But the other two were still older the blandishment of his child-like innocence.
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This daughter of Atlas has got hold of poor unhappy Ulysses, and keeps trying by every kind of blandishment to make him forget his home, so that he is tired of life, and thinks of nothing but how he may once more see the smoke of his own chimneys.
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