cajolery

"Oh," said Albert with all the cajolery of which he was capable.

As a woman of independent mind and career, she couldn't bring herself to cajolery.

Her voice, Erika noticed, had turned from command to cajolery.

As Miles expected, this appeal for help had more impact than logic, demands, or cajolery.

Even his critics were likely to concede that behind the cajolery a fine legal mind was running at full tilt.

Had his questioning seemed the cajolery of an agent provocateur?

Then he put aside cajolery and his face stiffened.

She started around the table to make amends; substitute cajolery for insistence.

He will be regarded as a weakling who yielded to cajolery.

It had proved impossible to withstand Rose's cajolery, and, more importantly, her questions.

There is an impatient willfulness behind every flirtatious bit of cajolery.

Getting these men onboard had taken years of cajolery.

She learned that he was equally proof against cajolery, while reproaches seemed only to bore him.

In the second place, the word "craft" means cajolery, cunning, deceit.

"For starters, mountains don't care about politics, cajolery or duplicity.

As for you, Benedict, neither your cajolery nor your hectoring will work with me.

Criticism and cajolery are of little help in changing the basic trends of an individual's psyche.

He wasn't good on bribes, or cajolery, or appeals to his better nature.

He drew her close, he repeated his hopeless words of tenderness and cajolery.

And from that point he would not budge in spite of cajolery and insult.

He knew how to threaten, what to threaten her with, and when to turn from threats to charming cajolery.

She had won, as always, with her characteristic blend of cajolery, brute force, and disarming candor.

Now-' Her voice went from cajolery to sheer venom. '

By 1968, all his political skills, cajolery and cozying up to the press could not save his career.

Markham attempted repeatedly, with both cajolery and brusqueness, to draw Vance out.