cajolery
noun
persuasion by flattery or promises; wheedling; coaxing.
cajoleries
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pluralof cajolery.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
No entreaties nor cajoleries at first availed to make them leave their refuge.
From The Story of Rouen by Sir Theodore Andrea Cook
She is merry like no one else, and witty, and full of cajoleries, like a child.
From Tante by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
He was altogether bewildered by the cajoleries which she lavished upon him; his hope that his flame was at last shared awoke to new life; indeed, Madame Baldimer's conduct fully justified that hope.
From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Charles Paul de Kock
Dan was well hardened to her cajoleries by this time; he was confident that she would have made "sweet eyes at Caliban."
From A Hoosier Chronicle by F. C. (Frederick Coffay) Yohn
