Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To coax by flattery or wheedling; cajole.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To flatter; caress; coax or cajole with complaisant speech or caressing act.
- To render pleasing, alluring, or enticing.
- To offer or bestow blandly or caressingly: as, to
blandish words or favors. - To assume a caressing or blandishing manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To flatter with kind words or affectionate actions; to caress; to cajole.
- transitive verb To make agreeable and enticing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
persuade someone by usingflattery ; tocajole . - verb transitive To
praise someonedishonestly ; toflatter orbutter up .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb praise somewhat dishonestly
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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To that end, I occasionally ask beg blandish published authors into coming here to Author!
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I gave him a spell to make him immune from her blandish - ments, having been warned by her other selfs behavior in Proton.
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Those of lesser means often save up for them, get a paper route, or blandish kith and kin into donating toward them as birthday presents, in much the same way as anyone else who wants something out of his price range.
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She has let you blandish her into that most difficult and dangerous of tasks, telling the truth to a friend.
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Find someone whose LITERARY opinion you trust — such as, say, a great writer you met at a conference, or the person in your writing group who keeps being asked to send sample chapters — and blandish her into giving your query letter and synopsis a solid reading.
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Those of lesser means often save up for them, get a paper route, or blandish kith and kin into donating toward them as birthday presents, in much the same way as anyone else who wants something out of his price range.
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And all the "human rights" or other ludicrous pretexts the muslims - Sunni or Shi'ia - blandish as justification for Israel's piecemeal destruction are so much hot air.
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She has let you blandish her into that most difficult and dangerous of tasks, telling the truth to a friend.
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As Arianna points out in her latest, the continuing administration effort to blandish away the obvious in Iraq, the dreadful realization that suicide attacks are unpreventable -- it all conspires to produce the resentment which pours forth in those school and community gatherings the Times describes, where parents are establishing that this is Bush's war, not theirs.
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Find someone whose opinion you trust – such as, say, a great writer you met at a conference, or the person in your writing group who keeps being asked to send sample chapters – and blandish her into giving your query letter and synopsis a solid reading.
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