blarney
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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
“Joyride,” a grievously schematic blend of odd-couple comedy and life-affirming road movie, traverses the Irish countryside with a small degree of charm and a boatload of blarney.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2022
That’s Digger Phelps, Irish basketball coach with similar blarney skills to Lasorda’s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 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
A little group round Schilsky blarneyed and expostulated.
From Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson
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
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
I don't want to be petted and blarneyed.
From John Bull's Other Island by Bernard Shaw
Despite blarneying speeches by Evita, a rank & file strike started.
From Time Magazine Archive
"A husband can show his consideration without blarneying," remarked Mrs. Watterly coldly.
From He Fell in Love with His Wife by Edward Payson Roe
“Mistress Lyon,” he said indolently, but with the soft, well-anointed utterance of the blarneying islander, which does not die away till the third generation of the poorest exile from Erin, “now, misthress dear, consider!”
From The Dew of Their Youth by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
"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
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
