as in coaxing
to get (someone) to do something by gentle urging, special attention, or flattery
she can sweet-talk her besotted boyfriend into just about anything
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Recent Examples of sweet-talking
Forget the old myths about dressing up or sweet-talking your way to the front.
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Alesandra Dubin, Southern Living, 14 Sep. 2025
When you're isolated, that sweet-talking stranger starts looking pretty appealing.
—Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
Ukraine and its European allies are worried Putin may succeed in sweet-talking Trump into signing up for its one-sided vision for ending the war, leaving Kyiv out in the cold.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2025
Alesandra Dubin, Southern Living, 14 Sep. 2025
When you're isolated, that sweet-talking stranger starts looking pretty appealing.
—Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
Ukraine and its European allies are worried Putin may succeed in sweet-talking Trump into signing up for its one-sided vision for ending the war, leaving Kyiv out in the cold.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sweet-talking
coaxing
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One of his former teachers was still there, coaxing students to line up neatly.—
Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
25 Oct. 2025
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But coaxing nematodes is tricky and time-consuming, so Ortega-Jiménez collaborated with Ranjiangshang Ran, a postdoc studying fluid mechanics at Emory University, who ran computer simulations of thousands more jump trajectories.—
Cody Cottier,
Scientific American,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Sweet-talking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sweet-talking. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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