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

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

Controversy ensued, haughty, magisterial, domineering, on the part of Bossuet; on the part of F�nelon, meek, docile, suasive.

From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver