(v. t.) To persuade by gentle, insinuating courtesy, flattering, or fondling; to wheedle; to soothe.
(n.) A simpleton; a dupe.
Example Sentences:
(1) How did Panahi manage to coax a performance out of him?
(2) But then came a challenge I couldn't turn down – busking outside Camden tube station with Billy Bragg , one of my musical and political heroes, who was happy to tutor and coax me through our favourite playlist.
(3) Coaxing form from the forward is another of Sherwood's early achievements.
(4) Human interaction made captivity more tolerable, so she coaxed it out of her kidnappers where possible.
(5) Sneijder is the last man standing from the Inter side that José Mourinho coaxed to victory over Bayern Munich in Madrid, six days after wrapping up the Italian league title and 17 after their domestic cup win.
(6) Consumer confidence has bounced back; the long-moribund housing market has been coaxed back to life even outside the capital; and retail sales are rising, helped by all the carpets and kitchens homebuyers need to kit out their new nests.
(7) Mr Salmond and his deputy, Nicola Sturgeon, tried again early yesterday to coax the Lib Dems into accepting yet another olive branch: to put their intense disagreements on an independence referendum aside while trying to agree common ground on domestic policies.
(8) Getting someone to cut down their smoking or change their diet is by coaxing, negotiation.
(9) Goodes said it was the support of Swans fans that coaxed him into extending his club record games tally to 372.
(10) The judge, Faisal Arab, had been trying to coax Musharraf to voluntarily submit to appearing in court ever since the hearings began in late December.
(11) Some were fished out of the water with the help of holidaymakers from the campsite opposite who used their own boats; others were coaxed out of their hiding places on the island.
(12) However, he was less convinced by Ant's musical merits, and coaxed his band members into forming a new group, Bow Wow Wow, which would be led by a 13-year-old girl whom McLaren met at a dry cleaners and renamed Annabella Lwin.
(13) On the face of it, the decision to suspend talks is a blow to the US secretary of state, John Kerry , who has spent almost nine months trying to coax Israelis and Palestinians into an agreement about the conflict's most contentious issues.
(14) He coaxes Hicks into repeating what Colonel Gibson told Hicks about not being able to deploy from Tripoli to Benghazi.
(15) She would far prefer to use the collective voice of future Sandbag members to coax the big industrial polluters into handing over their surplus credits than have to rely on members to buy them.
(16) 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.
(17) A similar strategy has informed my translation; although my own part of England is separated from Lud's Church by the swollen uplands of the Peak District, coaxing Gawain and his poem back into the Pennines was always part of the plan.
(18) Truly, Brexit has stirred something not heroic or celebratory or generous in the nation, but instead has coaxed into the light from some dark, damp places the lowest human impulses, from the small-minded to the mean-spirited to the murderous.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Gina Miller at the Convention on Brexit.
(19) So what Ed Miliband should do – rather than trying to coax employers into slowly but surely adopting the living wage (which by his own thesis, some businesses – the predators – may never do), he should cut to the chase and raise the minimum wage to the living wage, thus ensuring that no one in our society is paid a wage on which it is impossible to live.
(20) But organisers of Wednesday’s anti-Murphy meeting are canvassing support from constituency Labour parties in a bid to push Murphy into voluntarily standing down, and to coax other critics of his leadership at Holyrood into publicly calling for his resignation.
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.