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

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

There was much discourse, suasive, argumentative; Grumkow "quoting Scripture on her Majesty, as the Devil can on occasion," says Wilhelmina.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 06 by Carlyle, Thomas

Armenia's cause found a forcible and suasive pleader in Boghos Pasha, whose way of marshaling arguments in favor of a contention that was frowned upon by many commanded admiration.

From The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Dillon, Emile Joseph