CAJOLES Synonyms: 46 Similar and Opposite Words

cajoles

verb

present tense third-person singular of cajole

as in coaxes

to get (someone) to do something by gentle urging, special attention, or flattery cajoled her into doing his laundry for him

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Recent Examples of cajoles Emily cajoles Sylvie into a meeting with Nico and Marcello. —

Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2025 Guardiola, usually a manager who passionately cajoles his players on the sidelines, cut a far more demure figure in the second half. —

Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2025 In one of the most harrowing scenes in the movie, a drunken Douglas Springsteen cajoles a young Bruce into a bedroom slapping game that begins to border on genuine physical abuse. —

Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2025

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coaxes

Verb

That’s perhaps for the best, given the ongoing discussions surrounding AI psychosis, a troubling trend that has caused an alarming wave of mental health crises as the tech coaxes some users into spirals of paranoid and delusional behavior.

— Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 26 Mar. 2026
Amid these absurdities, Manuel coaxes out the cruelty of the resort’s hierarchies.

— Richard Brody, New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2026