blarney
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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
It’s the kind of easy way out that he seems to find halfway into the finale, when he turns on the blarney spigot one more time to talk his way into a cushy plea deal.
From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 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
I don't want to be petted and blarneyed.
From John Bull's Other Island by Bernard Shaw
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
They blarneyed me up and they blarneyed me down, and they said nobody could cook like Paddy.
From On the Firing Line by Hamilton Brock Fuller
Despite blarneying speeches by Evita, a rank & file strike started.
From Time Magazine Archive
"And a very becoming flower a white rose is," she continued, "though I am a bold girl to be blarneying with a young gentleman I met no longer ago than last night."
From The Gentleman from Indiana by Booth Tarkington
Her face is cunning and pretty, and she makes a funny, blarneying noise when I go up to her.
From A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
Yes, the pickpocket, the card-sharper, the "lumberer," the confidence man, the blarneying beggar, and the fakir of every description laid his snares on this holy spot.
From The Christian A Story by Sir Hall Caine
“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
