blarney

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

To many would-be publishers, the title sounded like a bunch of blarney — even in the early 1990s, many people still considered Ireland a conservative backwater and a cultural appendage to Britain.

From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 2022

And there is a little whimsy, or perhaps a touch of blarney, in “Belfast,” though you can sense Branagh hard at work, straining to keep every impulse toward cutesiness in check.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 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

Without any influence whatever, save his pleasing address and his wide education, he blarneyed the State Department out of a consulate.

From The Goose Girl by Harold MacGrath

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

I don't want to be petted and blarneyed.

From John Bull's Other Island by Bernard Shaw

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

"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 Burton Egbert Stevenson

"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

"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