Synonyms of blandishment

blandishment

noun

as in cajolery

a nice thing that someone says or does to persuade another to do something

He finally succumbed to his children's blandishments and allowed them to stay up past their bedtime.

Related Words

• cajolery
• urging
• flattery
• entreaty
• wheedling
• charming
• exhortation
• charm
• coaxing
• butter
• pressuring
• seduction
• soft soap
• sycophancy
• adulation
• enticement
• ingratiation
• fawning
• allurement
• endearment
• sweet talk
• adoration
• taffy
• praise
• blarney
• beguilement
• incense
• cajolement
• overpraise
• toadying
• wooing
• flannel
• acclaim
• courting
• influencing
• tempting
• applause
• smarm
• prompting
• inducement
• lobbying
• romancing
• swaying
• massaging
• suasion
• commendation
• brainwashing
• convincing
• persuading
• worship
• idolatry
• buttering up
• conversion
• inducing
• persuasion
• overpersuasion

Dissimilar Words

• disparagement
• depreciation
• belittlement
• detraction
• bad-mouthing
• put-down

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of blandishment

The fateful lane change arose out of one mayor’s resistance to such blandishments. — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 7 May 2020

Her 2014 autobiography, A Fighting Chance, and recent stump speeches are festooned in pep club spirit and folksy blandishments, cloying bits of business that have attached themselves to her life story. — Caroline Fraser, The New York Review of Books, 13 Feb. 2020

The region’s main powers, Australia and New Zealand, fear the creation of a mendicant state on their doorsteps, susceptible, in particular, to Chinese bribes and blandishments. — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019

Having failed to win the Japanese around with blandishments, an increasingly desperate-looking Senard has reached for the stick. — Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2019

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