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Definition of cajolery:
Synonyms:
hot air, rhetoric, empty words, empty talk, wheedling, palaver, blandishment.
- flattery (part of speech: noun)
Usage examples:
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Coaxing and cajolery were tried to no purpose.
- "The Boy Slaves", Mayne Reid. -
She knew that there was another way of putting the case, whereby she was not stuck in the criminal box; but the knowledge groped about blindly, and finding herself there, Mrs. Chump lost all idea of a counter- accusation, and resorted to wriggling and cajolery.
- "The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith", George Meredith. -
It was a smile like a child's, that caressed and cajoled, and that saw through its own cajolery and pleaded, with a little wistfulness, that there was more than could show itself, behind.
- "Franklin Kane", Anne Douglas Sedgwick.