half-persuasive

It was soft with that caressing quality she knew of old -- that tenderness, half-humorous, half-persuasive, that had won her heart so long, so long ago.

The Tidal Wave and Other Stories 1910

He held out his hand to her with a smile half-mocking, half-persuasive.

Greatheart 1910

He had an impressive, half-persuasive, half-commanding manner.

Abraham Lincoln A History Nicolay, John G & Hay John 1890

He had an impressive, half-persuasive, half-commanding manner.

Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02 John George Nicolay 1866

One of the two, a handsome young man, kept repeating every minute to the other, with a half-questioning, half-persuasive smile, “After all, we don’t care a damn.”

Time Regained 2003

Sir Jasper, and soothe our nerves by satisfying our curiosity, "she said in her half-persuasive, half-commanding way, as she seated herself on

The Abbot's Ghost, or Maurice Treherne's Temptation A Christmas Story Louisa May Alcott 1860