suasive

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Her plottings are too tortuous to be entirely per suasive.

From Time Magazine Archive

Meanwhile, Laski's fame as British Socialism's most suasive intellectual polemicist grew steadily.

From Time Magazine Archive

Although AFL-CIO Boss George Meany, now 82, is hardly a per suasive personal advocate of early retirement, Big Labor has quietly opposed the Pepper bill.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ministers of religion as well as physicians have always wielded with authority the suasive power.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

As an orator, he was denunciatory rather than suasive; thus while on the one hand he powerfully impressed, on the other hand he stimulated opposition.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various