BLANDISHMENT Synonyms: 62 Similar and Opposite Words

blandishment

noun

Definition of blandishment

as in cajolery

a nice thing that someone says or does to persuade another to do something He finally succumbed to his children's blandishments and allowed them to stay up past their bedtime.

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Recent Examples of blandishment The fateful lane change arose out of one mayor’s resistance to such blandishments. — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 7 May 2020 Her 2014 autobiography, A Fighting Chance, and recent stump speeches are festooned in pep club spirit and folksy blandishments, cloying bits of business that have attached themselves to her life story. — Caroline Fraser, The New York Review of Books, 13 Feb. 2020 The region’s main powers, Australia and New Zealand, fear the creation of a mendicant state on their doorsteps, susceptible, in particular, to Chinese bribes and blandishments. — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019 Having failed to win the Japanese around with blandishments, an increasingly desperate-looking Senard has reached for the stick. — Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2019 See All Example Sentences for blandishment

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Noun

But in 2003, Republicans in the state legislature resolved, at the urging of Representative Tom DeLay, to redraw the state’s districts all over again in a manner guaranteed to deliver a handful of congressional seats to the Republican Party.

— J. B. MacKinnon, Harpers Magazine, 27 Oct. 2026
In July 2026, at the urging of Haredi parties, the government passed a law to temporarily prevent arresting draft evaders.

— Hannah Ridge, The Conversation, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of urging

Noun

But such is the scale of Brazil’s polarization that many Brazilians are insensible to Lula’s entreaties and want the left defeated.

— Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2026
Abroad, their entreaties had remained unsuccessful, their diplomats had remained unrecognized, and their national existence had remained unrealized.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of entreaty

Noun

The speech would end with an exhortation for Congress to pass the SAVE America Act, a bill requiring voters to provide documentary proof of citizenship to register, which Mitchell had helped draft.

— Doug Bock Clark, ProPublica, 28 Oct. 2026
Duckworth also faced backlash from critics who argued that her message was, at best, a series of hollow exhortations to simply try harder and, at worst, an insidious form of victim-blaming that ignored structural inequality.

— Meghan O’Gieblyn, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of exhortation

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Fit Check of the Week Tim Burton, iconoclast filmmaker extraordinaire, has a new capsule with Loewe, which has recreated characters and vignettes from The Nightmare Before Christmas as bags and charms.

— José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 5 Nov. 2026
Once a favorite emerging market for foreign investors, Indian equities have been losing their charm.

— Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of charm

Noun

Her debut was a bit of a fluke at the coaxing of her close friend, the harpist and DJ Mary Lattimore.

— Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 30 Oct. 2026
Spider Plant Unlike snake plants, spider plants need no coaxing to make more plants for your collection.

— Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Sep. 2026

Definition of coaxing

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