blarney

The man known for his charm and Irish blarney — a gift for the gab — was an ardent advocate of stronger U.S.-Canadian relations.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 29, 2024

And there is a little whimsy, or perhaps a touch of blarney, in “Belfast,” though you can sense Branagh hard at work, straining to keep every impulse toward cutesiness in check.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2021

With his Gaelic good looks, charisma and Irish blarney, he set up a music club, the Scene, in London’s Soho district.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 24, 2020

With his penchant for poetry and blarney, the former vice president has emerged as a sort of national eulogist in chief.

From New York Times ● Apr. 16, 2019

“You are right to laugh, Captain Short. For a while there, I did believe in all that under-the-rainbow crock-of-gold blarney, but now I know better. Now I know about the hostage fund.”

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

But their handiwork caught the eye of another Democrat, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who had come into the Nixon White House as a presidential assistant, and who blarneyed Nixon into endorsing the idea.

From Time Magazine Archive

A little group round Schilsky blarneyed and expostulated.

From Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson

Then we argued among ourselves, coaxed, blarneyed, persuaded, and tried to bribe one another.

From The Ivory Trail by Talbot Mundy

She presented Joy-of-Life with a banana which she had blarneyed from our Italian fruit-vender, and gave me a little jar of cream, begged or bullied from the milkman in the early dawn.

From Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road by Katharine Lee Bates

He worried through arithmetic and algebra and blarneyed his French and German tutors into making them believe he knew more than he did, but the purely scientific aspects of learning did not interest him.

From Paradise Garden The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment by George Gibbs

Despite blarneying speeches by Evita, a rank & file strike started.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Mistress Lyon,” he said indolently, but with the soft, well-anointed utterance of the blarneying islander, which does not die away till the third generation of the poorest exile from Erin, “now, misthress dear, consider!”

From The Dew of Their Youth by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

I think I have heard something like that before, my blarneying Plantagenet.

From The Iron Game A Tale of the War by Henry F. (Henry Francis) Keenan

Waiting for their turn, the fish-women were blarneying with customs men or idlers who stood about looking at the big fish with the curiosity of landlubbers.

From Mayflower (Flor de mayo) A Tale of the Valencian Seashore by Arthur Livingston

"A husband can show his consideration without blarneying," remarked Mrs. Watterly coldly.

From He Fell in Love with His Wife by Edward Payson Roe