blandish

Example Sentences

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At 71Above, his cooking has taken a slightly more luxurious turn — foie gras terrine, truffled steak tartare with tapenade, blandish roast chicken with foie gras, truffles and mushrooms stuffed under the skin.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2017

Others see it as a blandish “Star Wars” knockoff that’s not nearly as endearing as “The Princess Bride,” which came out a year earlier.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2016

Both the original and final titles arguably have the blandish ring of something featuring James Bond, who had already laid claim to “Die Another Day,” which would have been very fitting.

From New York Times • Aug. 15, 2014

But last week, with Red armies overrunning Rumania, Bulgaria and entering Hungary, more Russians than ever before were face to face with the blandish ments of the other, world.

From Time Magazine Archive

At her right-hand, in this cause, labours fair Josephine the Widow Beauharnais, though in straitened circumstances: intent, both of them, to blandish down the grimness of Republican austerity, and recivilise mankind.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas