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
It’s the kind of easy way out that he seems to find halfway into the finale, when he turns on the blarney spigot one more time to talk his way into a cushy plea deal.
From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 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
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
"Yes, and I must beware of being blarneyed."
From Poor Relations by Compton MacKenzie
He worried through arithmetic and algebra and blarneyed his French and German tutors into making them believe he knew more than he did, but the purely scientific aspects of learning did not interest him.
From Paradise Garden The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment by George Gibbs
A little group round Schilsky blarneyed and expostulated.
From Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson
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
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
Waiting for their turn, the fish-women were blarneying with customs men or idlers who stood about looking at the big fish with the curiosity of landlubbers.
From Mayflower (Flor de mayo) A Tale of the Valencian Seashore by Arthur Livingston
He looked every whit as Irish as his name, and he was scolding and blarneying the birds by turn.
From Leerie by Ruth Sawyer
And I thought that man a Juggins," said Haigh, "and imagined I was blarneying and greening him ad libitum, whilst all the time he was bamboozling me—me—me, gentlemen.
From The Recipe for Diamonds by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne
