blarney

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

And there is a little whimsy, or perhaps a touch of blarney, in “Belfast,” though you can sense Branagh hard at work, straining to keep every impulse toward cutesiness in check.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2021

With his penchant for poetry and blarney, the former vice president has emerged as a sort of national eulogist in chief.

From New York Times ● Apr. 16, 2019

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

Then we argued among ourselves, coaxed, blarneyed, persuaded, and tried to bribe one another.

From The Ivory Trail by Talbot Mundy

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

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

Then I thanked her, and blarneyed her as well as I was able, although that wasn't much, as I never have been much of a hand with women.

From The Recipe for Diamonds by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne

Despite blarneying speeches by Evita, a rank & file strike started.

From Time Magazine Archive

Strong-willed woman as she was, he knew that Cedric would rule her utterly; the lad's wheedling ways and blarneying tongue had already won her heart.

From Herb of Grace by Rosa Nouchette Carey

Yes, the pickpocket, the card-sharper, the "lumberer," the confidence man, the blarneying beggar, and the fakir of every description laid his snares on this holy spot.

From The Christian A Story by Sir Hall Caine

“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

He looked every whit as Irish as his name, and he was scolding and blarneying the birds by turn.

From Leerie by Ruth Sawyer