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

Trump wanted courts to allow the use of his preferred map, which lawmakers approved last year at his urging.

— DAVID A. LIEB, Arkansas Online, 11 Sep. 2026
The fact that the move apparently came at the urging of stars like Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl bought the Oilers a little bit of cover.

— Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of urging

Noun

The message underneath the flattery is more consequential since Somaliland is no longer simply making a historical or moral case for recognition.

— Yinka Adegoke, semafor.com, 16 Sep. 2026
But Ridgeway pushes on, trying various means — flattery, insults, amateur psychology — to cajole her into delivering a new Ripley book.

— Damon Wise, Deadline, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of flattery

Noun

The vast majority of those levies required authorization from Springfield, which never came despite entreaties from Johnson.

— The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2026
Alicent makes similar entreaties to Rhaenyra, offering to divide the kingdom, with Aegon in charge of the stormlands, westerlands, the Reach and rule from Oldtown, with everything to the north going to Rhaenyra.

— Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of entreaty

Noun

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
His character is a severe, hectoring figure; his lessons amount to an exhortation to be as mean as possible when money is concerned.

— Christopher Cox, Vanity Fair, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of exhortation

Noun

The state is sizable—447 miles long from north to south and 361 miles wide from east to west—which gives you all the more reason to return again and again to uncover more of its charms.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Sep. 2026
Even her handmade orchid bag charm has piercings that feel true to the time.

— Marci Robin, Allure, 23 Sep. 2026

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