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
He was about 5-foot-4 and known for theatrical blarney, greeting friends with a “top o’ the morning” while on walks with his dogs.
From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2021
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
“You are right to laugh, Captain Short. For a while there, I did believe in all that under-the-rainbow crock-of-gold blarney, but now I know better. Now I know about the hostage fund.”
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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
"Yes, and I must beware of being blarneyed."
From Poor Relations by Compton MacKenzie
No creature like the one that blarneyed Mother Eve could be here!
From Attention Saint Patrick by Murray Leinster
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
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 Katharine Lee Bates
Despite blarneying speeches by Evita, a rank & file strike started.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
"Don hasn't forgotten his blarneying ways, either;—just the same lad who went away from us so many months ago."
From Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman by Willie Walker Caldwell
"A husband can show his consideration without blarneying," remarked Mrs. Watterly coldly.
From He Fell in Love with His Wife by Edward Payson Roe
"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
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