(v. t.) To flatter with kind words or affectionate actions; to caress; to cajole.
(v. t.) To make agreeable and enticing.
Example Sentences:
(1) 2.41pm BST A commenter takes issue with our characterization in the intro of Manning's Quantico confinement as being under "harsh conditions" : anairbagsavedmylife 21 August 2013 2:16pm his sentence would be shortened by 112 days as a blandishment for his illegal detention in solitary confinement and other harsh conditions at the Quantico brig in Virginia in 2010-11.
(2) Politicians' blandishments about a spell of CV-enhancing volunteering jar painfully.
(3) "It is absolutely crucial, in view of the expense run up in the search, that Mark resists every blandishment on the part of any individual newspaper to buy up his story.
(4) The idea that the NHS currently stands apart from all this – pure, unsullied, impervious to the evil blandishments of hard-headed business – the one institution that stands single-handedly between ourselves and our preventable deaths, is utterly fallacious.
(5) Now of course all kinds of blandishments are being offered to the survivors.
(6) The social sciences should resist such blandishments and, rather than act in complicity with biomedicine, be free to pursue a more critical role in exposing the theoretical and empirical inconsistencies in the biomedical model.
(7) But the mayor has resisted Cameron’s blandishments, giving the out camp a spectacular boost.
(8) His blandishments include the offer of troops to police a demilitarised zone.
(9) Is there any bribe or blandishment that the Tories will not use as the prospect of losing a quarter of their kingdom looms?
(10) These are the people who could eventually suffer and die from Cameron's blandishments to the dictators.
(11) That leaves the question: are these approaches and blandishments the tentative beginnings of a new pragmatism emerging in Obama's relations with business leaders?
(12) Listen to his blandishments during a media tour this week: "When you back up and look at Apple's effect on job creation in the United States, we estimate that we've created more than 600,000 jobs now," Cook told Brian Williams of NBC's Rock Center .
(13) It has fallen to Pius XII to denounce Communist ideology in such an implacable manner as to forfend a series of schisms on the part of Catholics tempted to yield to Communist blandishments.
(14) The form has developed - from the 18th-century English invention of child portraiture, through the mass-marketed blandishments of Kate Greenaway and Cicely Mary Barker, to cutesy cards and blushing bottom advertising.
(15) The king's speech was largely about the Saudis responding to the blandishments of the US, trying to make life a little tougher for Assad by swapping some unusually frank neighbourly criticism for a deafening regional silence.
(16) All of which explains why new parents are uniquely susceptible to the blandishments of companies looking to part them from their money.
(17) Another junta consideration is China's increasingly overbearing behaviour, which contrasts unfavourably with the attractive blandishments, real and potential, attendant on improved relations with India , Japan and others intent on curbing Beijing's ambitions.
(18) In addition, Judge Lind said his sentence would be shortened by 112 days as a blandishment for his illegal detention in solitary confinement and other harsh conditions at the Quantico brig in Virginia in 2010-11.
(19) The problem for BA is that, after months of this, passengers and agents are sceptical, and quite frankly bored, of its blandishments.
(20) There has been no "decisive blow" against the Taliban, contrary to Obama's Tuesday blandishment.
Brandish
Definition:
(n.) To move or wave, as a weapon; to raise and move in various directions; to shake or flourish.
(n.) To play with; to flourish; as, to brandish syllogisms.
(n.) A flourish, as with a weapon, whip, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Brandishing cash sweeteners so squarely directed at different age groups opens another fracture along generational lines.
(2) Debating issues such as unemployment benefits and the rehabilitation of prisoners, I was suddenly propelled into the role of standalone lefty whose views were brandished "dreamy" and "irrational".
(3) Brandishing images of what Virgin "lounges" might look like – similar to a stark yet trendy hotel restaurant – Gadhia admits that her other motto for running the business is "wanting to make everyone better off".
(4) Jones, on the scene moments later, reached for his back pocket and brandished the red card.
(5) "How do you convince the world that you are open for business while brandishing nuclear weapons at the world's largest economy and kidnapping an octogenarian?"
(6) Islamist extremist Man Monis , brandishing a shotgun and claiming he was an Isis operative with explosives in his backpack, took 18 people hostage inside the Lindt cafe on the morning of 15 December 2014.
(7) So, should you incur a public-spirited 50,000-volt warning shot – perhaps for brandishing your pension book in an aggressive manner or because a young PC has mistaken your tartan shopping trolley for a piece of field artillery – don't accidentally shout "Oh fuck!"
(8) A video that surfaced in the aftermath of the battle for Donetsk airport last month showed “Givi”, one of the rebel commanders, throwing Ukrainian prisoners into the mud, hitting them in the face, and brandishing a knife at them.
(9) On Saturday, a man in a white pickup truck brandished a gun and fired into the air during a confrontation with protesters.
(10) This article was amended on 9 June 2015 to reflect the fact the police officer pulled his gun on two other teenagers but brandished it at the girl.
(11) As Cleveland officials investigate a police shooting of a 12-year-old African American boy who was brandishing a fake gun at a Cleveland playground, one state lawmaker is calling for such toys to be specially marked.
(12) A photograph of Tarkeshwari Rathod brandishing the Indian flag on the summit – which was used by the Nepal Tourism Board to verify their claim – has also been questioned, with skeptics saying that the shadows suggest it was taken closer to noon.
(13) His appeal to the Labour party members tends to involve him brandishing his party card and affirming his loyalty to its motto: Putting power, wealth and opportunity into the hands of the many.
(14) to a megaphone-brandishing woman with the words "moralising slut" written across her chest (a reference to Russian deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin, who called Madonna a moralising "slut" when she expressed support for Pussy Riot).
(15) Lee Probert, the referee, brandished a straight red card following Sessègnon's second-half challenge on Yacouba Sylla at Villa Park as Sunderland succumbed to a damaging 6-1 defeat .
(16) It began at last month’s Democratic convention when Khan’s father, Khizr, excoriated Trump and asked, “Have you even read the United States constitution?” while brandishing a copy above his head.
(17) Khan's mother said she had been shocked at how different he seemed in the video, which is entitled There's No Life Without Jihad and shows Khan, Nasser Muthana and three other men brandishing guns as they implore others to join them fighting in Syria.
(18) Brandishing a cartoon of a bomb with a red line to illustrate his point, the Israeli prime minister warned the UN in New York that Iran would be able to build nuclear weapons the following year and called for action to halt the process.
(19) What we are actually seeing is the brandishing of powerlessness from our political class, the shrinking of their ability to think differently or even widely.
(20) In the eighteenth century, a pedestrian strolling around Georgian London may have witnessed the bizarre sight of an ageing gentleman parading the streets on a painted horse and brandishing the jawbone of an ass.