cajole
Example Sentences
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My mother did her best to cajole me into going.
From MarketWatch
With no budget to hire trained reporters, Ned leans on the paper's dwindling staff, cajoling disgruntled employees into volunteering as journalists despite them having no idea what they're doing.
From BBC
Do they need cajoling or taking down a peg or two?
From BBC
So the amount of damage control and cajoling it will take to keep things on track after the disaster in Arizona is enough to make a good fire advocate’s head spin.
From Los Angeles Times
As the administration’s Aug. 12 letter put it, the object is to cajole, and even force, them to all follow “the President’s directive.”
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
