suasive

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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

Her plottings are too tortuous to be entirely per suasive.

From Time Magazine Archive

IV Ah for the world ere Raleigh's find   Never that knew this suasive balm That helps when Gilead's fails to heal,   Helps by an interserted charm.

From John Marr and Other Poems by Melville, Herman

Never, according to Besenval, or hardly ever, had such display of intellect, dexterity, coolness, suasive eloquence, been made by man.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas