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Definition of cajolery:

A wheedling to delude; words used in cajoling; flattery.

Synonyms:

hot air, rhetoric, empty words, empty talk, wheedling, palaver, blandishment.

flattery (part of speech: noun)

Usage examples:

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.