suasive
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Her plottings are too tortuous to be entirely per suasive.
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
Meanwhile, Laski's fame as British Socialism's most suasive intellectual polemicist grew steadily.
From Time Magazine Archive
So spoke the great advocate with suasive eloquence—with eloquence dangerously suasive as regarded his own happiness.
From The Bertrams by Anthony Trollope
Soon, then, as Circe mark’d me on my seat Fast-rooted, sullen, nor with outstretch’d hands Deigning to touch the banquet, she approach’d, And in wing’d accents suasive thus began.
From The Odyssey of Homer by William Cowper
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