SWEET-TALKS Synonyms: 46 Similar and Opposite Words

sweet-talks

verb

present tense third-person singular of sweet-talk

as in coaxes

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-talks Nate the Cuckold Nate is so deep in debt that he sweet-talks Cassie, who still has feelings for him, into wiring him $35,000 to make the mortgage payment on their house — and then another $30,000. —

Marlow Stern, Variety, 11 May 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for sweet-talks

coaxes

Verb

Jonathan Karis, an alumnus of Gramercy Tavern, takes the season’s bounty and coaxes it into its fullest expression — home cooking at its most virtuosic.

— Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 11 May 2026
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