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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | talk into |
| Synonyms: | banter, blandish, butter up, cajole, charm, coax, con, court, draw, entice, finagle, flatter, inveigle, kowtow, lay it on, oil, persuade, seduce, snow*, soap, soft-soap, soften up, spread it on, sweet-talk, sweeten up, work on, worm |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | curry favor |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | butter up |
| Synonyms: | back-scratch, bootlick, brownnose, cajole, court, dance attendance on, fall all over, fawn over, flatter, kiss up to, pay court to, suck up to, sweet-talk, toady to, win over |
| Main Entry: | apple-polish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fawn |
| Synonyms: | bootlick, brown-nose, butter up, curry favor, flatter, grovel, kiss someone's feet, kowtow, lick someone's boots, suck up to, sweet-talk, toady, truckle |
| Main Entry: | sweet-talk |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | coax |
| Synonyms: | allure, argue into, arm-twist, barter, beguile, blandish, blarney, butter up, cajole, come on, con, decoy, entice, flatter, get*, honey, hook*, importune, induce, influence, inveigle, jawbone, lure, pester, plague, press, prevail upon, rope in, soft-soap, soothe, talk into, tease, tempt, urge, wangle, wheedle, work on, worm |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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