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

To many would-be publishers, the title sounded like a bunch of blarney — even in the early 1990s, many people still considered Ireland a conservative backwater and a cultural appendage to Britain.

From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 2022

That’s Digger Phelps, Irish basketball coach with similar blarney skills to Lasorda’s.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 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

Well, of course, Maniac knew that most if not all of that was blarney, and, just to make sure, he watched the ball extra carefully.

From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli

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 I thanked her, and blarneyed her as well as I was able, although that wasn't much, as I never have been much of a hand with women.

From The Recipe for Diamonds by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne

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

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

From The Ivory Trail by Talbot Mundy

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

From Time Magazine Archive

"Well, my love, you have got a blarneying tongue, and no mistake; but now, when I do get to Nortonbury, what am I to do?"

From Red Rose and Tiger Lily or, In a Wider World by L. T. Meade

And I thought that man a Juggins," said Haigh, "and imagined I was blarneying and greening him ad libitum, whilst all the time he was bamboozling me—me—me, gentlemen.

From The Recipe for Diamonds by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne

There was no surprise, however, in view of the nomination of Jim Irwin by the blarneying Bonner when the secretary smoothed out the first ballot, and read: “James E. Irwin, one.”

From The Brown Mouse by Herbert Quick

"Now it's you who are blarneying, dad!" cried Susie, but she dimpled with pleasure nevertheless, and so did Nell.

From Affairs of State by Burton Egbert Stevenson