blarney
Example Sentences
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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
Such blarneyed encounters are part of the daily routine of Ted Kennedy, who is off and running for public office�most any public office.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Yes, and I must beware of being blarneyed."
From Poor Relations by MacKenzie, Compton
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
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 Gibbs, George
