coaxer
Example Sentences
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She remembers rookie director Wright as "a great coaxer," and took acting notes from her costar, who she calls "an exquisite performer."
From Time Magazine Archive
Directors of movies with kid actors have to be parent and disciplinarian, coach and coaxer to their young stars.
From Time Magazine Archive
The first tip of the season is always briskly rubbed on the trousers-leg and kept in the pocket of the recipient for the rest of the season as a "coaxer."
From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 by Various
The one guardian is a narrow-minded tyrant, the other, Winckel's brother, a merchant, a frivolous coaxer.
From Erasmus and the Age of Reformation by Johan Huizinga
Gulsiver was tried with a coaxer, but he let it pass.
From Frank Merriwell's Cruise by Burt L. Standish
