(v. i.) To deceive with flattery or fair words; to wheedle.
Example Sentences:
(1) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
(2) It would still need to work with government funded national anti-doping organisations where they exist (though even those considered an example to others, such as UK Anti Doping, are facing swingeing cuts) and bully as well as cajole sports into testing properly with rigour and independence.
(3) The Paris climate accord, the first comprehensive deal to lower emissions across 196 nations, was made possible through Obama’s cajoling of China to come on board.
(4) Further, in a vain attempt for a boost in the Hoosier State, Cruz unveiled former rival Carly Fiorina as his running mate if he receives the nomination and was able to cajole the state’s sitting governor, Mike Pence, into an endorsement.
(5) Kenyan human rights lawyers described how potential witnesses have been cajoled and bullied into withholding their testimony.
(6) Cameron’s EU deal: the verdict from our panel | Matthew d’Ancona, Daniel Hannan, Tom Clark and Natalie Nougayrède Read more There was still a long way to go and the deal was far from sealed, Dave soothingly cajoled, but “what we’ve got is what I basically asked for”.
(7) "Governments whether right or left have become commissioners in chief, nudging and cajoling networks into preferred business models without the slightest sensitivity or awareness of what the public wants or the TV industry is capable of," said Iannucci.
(8) The lobbying industry is free to continue secretly cajoling politicians while charities and trade unions will be silenced.
(9) Like a bandit who has cajoled his way in, the parasite now forces his host to prepare a banquet for him.
(10) It says: Usually hawkish Republicans questioned Obama’s Syria strategy and the GOP’s rising isolationist wing suggested that no amount of cajoling would persuade them to authorize another Middle Eastern military intervention.
(11) The summit delivered robust language on new measures aimed at shoring up the EU’s external borders, detention of refugees and migrants while their asylum claims are being processed, attempts to replace national powers over frontiers by new European agencies, and a drive to cajole countries outside the EU into keeping migrants at home and hosting those from elsewhere in transit to Europe.
(12) Whatever the technology, the decisions to go to war or make peace are made by people, and people are best judged and cajoled in the flesh.
(13) The organisation should be championing a global growth pact and cajoling countries such as Germany to sign up to it.
(14) He was “cajoled” into starting a Twitter account for publicity purposes, “but did not have warm feelings about it so I used it to satirize the self-important celebrity Twitter voice”.
(15) Twenty years after Nelson Mandela cajoled, threatened and shouted down even his own comrades and led us down the path of freedom, his successor Jacob Zuma has been crisscrossing the country campaigning to be re-elected .
(16) Bully me, cajole me, love me This year, the audience were the stars.
(17) The commissioners will have to put more work into establishing relationships with key talent, cajoling, encouraging them to feel confident that once again they've found a home for their work.
(18) They are going after the fossil fuel companies directly as opposed to just trying to go into business with them and gently cajole them into doing the right thing,” she says.
(19) The same gift of the gab that a good hotel manager deploys to schmooze an irate guest complaining about draughts made the difference between life and death; he cajoled and coaxed, flattered and deceived, lied and bribed.
(20) Pleading, shouting, wheedling, cajoling: none made any difference whatsoever.
Inveigle
Definition:
(v. t.) To lead astray as if blind; to persuade to something evil by deceptive arts or flattery; to entice; to insnare; to seduce; to wheedle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Supporters of Cable were also looking to see if they have a case to take the Daily Telegraph to the police or Press Complaints Commission for using false names, addresses and subterfuge to inveigle Liberal Democrat ministers into expressing doubts about some coalition policies.
(2) In the end, nothing mattered to voters at these elections other than punishing those who would inveigle their way into power with false promises.
(3) Five years ago at the Hay literary festival, the famous feuding Hitchens brothers were inveigled by the Guardian to share a platform.
(4) One night, in a Blackpool restaurant during a Conservative party conference, Waterhouse inveigled Tory into a bet which resulted in Tory losing his trousers.
(5) It is at times like this that one feels the loss of the former Buckingham MP Robert Maxwell most keenly, in the hope he'd have inveigled himself into being in charge of the members' fund.
(6) In Mandela's later years, the fund-raising schemes he was seemingly inveigled into bordered on the tawdry – the attempts to market golden replicas of his hand; his emergence in 2003 as a talented painter, capable of dashing off entrancing views of Robben Island (with a little help from Vareenkas Paschkea, a 26-year-old art teacher and granddaughter of PW Botha); the twinning of his name with that of Cecil Rhodes, through the merging of the Rhodes Trust and the Nelson Mandela Foundation into the Mandela Rhodes Foundation in 2002.
(7) Shrewd, manipulative and charged with boundless energy, Berezovsky soon inveigled his way into the Kremlin, becoming a power behind the throne in the later years of the Yeltsin presidency.
(8) Chat shows carry pitfalls for unwary politicians: former Northern Ireland minister Peter Brooke was unwisely inveigled into singing My Darling Clementine on Ireland's The Late, Late Show on the day of the 1992 Teebane massacre in which seven people were killed.
(9) Malignant and narcissistic, they may subvert acts of kindness, honesty, integrity and trust, inveigling their way into families and organisations, into the lives of trusting people.
(10) Based on extensive interviews, it recounts in unflinching detail the creation, jockeying for position and boardroom inveigling that the messaging service has gone through.
(11) It turned out the man was an inveterate liar and conman who had inveigled his way into Howard's affections by meticulously researching her life.