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

The nearest novel to being essentially Bostonian might be Edwin O’Connor’s “The Last Hurrah”; its protagonist, Frank Skeffington, based on Boston’s flamboyant James Michael Curley, embodies Boston’s old political culture of blarney and bribery.

From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2023

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

With his Gaelic good looks, charisma and Irish blarney, he set up a music club, the Scene, in London’s Soho district.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 24, 2020

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

Then I thanked her, and blarneyed her as well as I was able, although that wasn't much, as I never have been much of a hand with women.

From The Recipe for Diamonds by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne

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

"Yes, and I must beware of being blarneyed."

From Poor Relations by Compton MacKenzie

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

Despite blarneying speeches by Evita, a rank & file strike started.

From Time Magazine Archive

You don't mean what you say one bit, and it is a relief to me to know that it is all flummery--you silly, hot-pated, blarneying Pat!

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield

“You had ever a sweetly blarneying tongue,” said she, and bestowed a parting caress impartially upon both the persons 247 before her.

From The Indifference of Juliet by Henry Hutt

"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

Thought I was all fine, warm heart and blarneying words.

From Mrs. Red Pepper by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond