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To deceive with flattery or fair words; to wheedle. I am not about to cajole or flatter you into a reception of my views. F. W. Robertson.

The act of cajoling; the state of being cajoled; cajolery. Coleridge.

A flatterer; a wheedler.

A wheedling to delude; words used in cajoling; flattery. "Infamous cajoleries." Evelyn.

To deceive by trickery; to cajole by confusing the senses; to hoax; to mystify; to humbug. [Colloq.] Addison. What oriental tomfoolery is bamboozling you J. H. Newman.

To flatter with kind words or affectionate actions; to caress; to cajole.

e of affection or kindness, and tending to win the heart; soft words and artful caresses; cajolery; allurement. Cowering low with blandishment. Milton. Attacked by royal smiles, by female blandishments. Macaulay.

To deceive; to cheat; to play false; to lie; to wheedle; to cajole. For guineas in other men's breeches, Your gamesters will palm and will cog. Swift.

ne who courts; one who plays the lover, or who solicits in marriage; one who flatters and cajoles. Sherwood.

To lead or influence by jest or trick; to banter or jest; to cajole. Men that will not be reasoned into their senses, may yet be laughed or drolled into them. L'Estrange.

To cajole or coax, as favorite. [Obs.] I 'll presently go and engle some broker. B. Jonson.

Flattery; cajolery; deceit. [Obs.] Skeat.

e or vanity of, esp. by artful and interested commendation or attentions; to blandish; to cajole; to wheedle. When I tell him he hates flatterers, He says he does, being then most flattered. Shak. A man that flattereth his neighbor, spreadeth a net for his feet. Prov. xxix. 5. Others he flattered by asking their advice…

To impose on; to hoax; to cajole. [Colloq.] Hood.

To flatter by approving; to cajole; to impose on; to humbug. [Colloq. & Low]

ion under fair pretenses; something contrived in order to deceive and mislead; a trick by cajolery; a hoax.

To cajole or coax; to wheedle. See Engle. [Obs.]

To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude. Ford.

palaver with, or to; to used palaver;to talk idly or deceitfully; to employ flattery; to cajole; as, to palaver artfully. Palavering the little language for her benefit. C. Bront

Blandishment; cajolery. [Obs.] Shak.