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
“Joyride,” a grievously schematic blend of odd-couple comedy and life-affirming road movie, traverses the Irish countryside with a small degree of charm and a boatload of blarney.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2022
That’s Digger Phelps, Irish basketball coach with similar blarney skills to Lasorda’s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2021
My primary form of self-care was the constant generation of blarney.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 21, 2019
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 Richardson, Henry Handel
"Yes, and I must beware of being blarneyed."
From Poor Relations by MacKenzie, Compton
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 Bates, Katharine Lee
They blarneyed me up and they blarneyed me down, and they said nobody could cook like Paddy.
From On the Firing Line by Fuller, Hamilton Brock
Despite blarneying speeches by Evita, a rank & file strike started.
From Time Magazine Archive
The men found it sufficiently wonderful to satisfy even Freckles, who had forgotten he was ever sore or stiff, and coddled over it with every blarneying term of endearment he knew.
From Freckles by Stratton-Porter, Gene
"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 Stevenson, Burton Egbert
Strong-willed woman as she was, he knew that Cedric would rule her utterly; the lad's wheedling ways and blarneying tongue had already won her heart.
From Herb of Grace by Carey, Rosa Nouchette
Some have furloughs, and start at once for home, sometimes amid great chaffing and blarneying.
From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Whitman, Walt
