assuasive
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In his new position John is apt "to go in shaller cracks all over," unless his feminine trainer has been judicious in the use of lubricants—assuasive and dissuasive.
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Wounds were to be healed which required the assuasive hand of time, which were destined to rankle even in the bosoms of another generation, and the painful memory of which is keenly treasured even now.
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Perhaps,' said Bounderby, staring with all his might at his so quiet and assuasive father-in-law, 'you know where your daughter is at the present time!'
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For Truth and Pity then were young, And walk'd in simple, narrow bounds; Affection's meek, assuasive tongue, Had sweet, but most capricious sounds.
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In parts of humour, too, she had a manner of blending her assuasive softness, even with the gay, the lively, and the alluring.'
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
