What's the difference between cajoler and flatterer?
Cajoler
Definition:
(n.) A flatterer; a wheedler.
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.
Flatterer
Definition:
(n.) One who flatters.
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) With profound blockade, the slope of the edrophonium dose-response relationship was significantly flatter (P less than 0.05) than that of neostigmine.
(3) The groups showed significantly different iEMG fatigue slopes, with the control group showing declining iEMG by repetition, while the CLBP group showed flatter, slightly increasing iEMG.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Farage ’flattered’ by Trump’s call for him to be US ambassador In another shot at Obama, referring to remarks by the US president before the Brexit vote about the possible trade consequences of Britain leaving Europe, Farage said: “No longer do we have a president who says that we’re at the back of the line.” Everything you need to know about Trump and the Indiana Carrier factory Read more He also said Hillary Clinton, Trump’s opponent, had “wanted the European Union to be a prototype for a bigger model across the whole world”.
(5) "It may not be nice, kind or flattering, but to put it as unlawful would be startling," White said.
(6) Carbamazepine has a flatter concentration-time profile than valproic acid.
(7) Flattered, entreated, begged by the rest of the committee, he did not yield: "Recommendations are recommendations, there it is"; and "I honestly believe it's all there"; "I promise you I have done my very best"; "if I hadn't thought my recommendations were fit for purpose, I would not have made them"; "with all due respect, I could not have done any more than I did".
(8) Perhaps the most flattering epitaph for Ronnie Biggs, who has died aged 84, was written for him many years ago by the unlikely figure of the former commissioner of the Metropolitan police Sir Robert Mark .
(9) "So that was very flattering and a little surprising," she says.
(10) When spectrin was rebound to the erythrocyte membrane, a decay in the anisotropy was still present but was markedly less sensitive to solution viscosity and flatter at longer times.
(11) Things are different now: wonks observe that we’ve got lucky with the chairs – Margaret Hodge on the public accounts committee (PAC), Rory Stewart on defence, Sarah Wollaston on health – but committee work is flattered mainly by comparison with everything else.
(12) We praise and flatter each other and automatically learn the details of each other's lives.
(14) Early flattering comparisons were made with the Strokes and Sonic Youth.
(15) Their pay structure is flatter and their sense of responsibility to the community stronger.
(16) I will propose a new school funding model from the commonwealth which will be flatter, simpler, fairer to all the states and territories and equitable between students,” he said.
(17) The instantaneous I-V curve was linear while in the steady state the curve became flatter at low negative membrane potentials and steeper at high negative membrane potentials.
(18) To describe this course of action as "clutching at straws" is to flatter it.
(19) She should be confronting her party's prejudices, not flattering them.
(20) The steeper the curve of Spee, the more irregular the cusp height and angulations are with steeper anterior cusps and flatter posterior cusps.