blarney
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The man known for his charm and Irish blarney — a gift for the gab — was an ardent advocate of stronger U.S.-Canadian relations.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
And there is a little whimsy, or perhaps a touch of blarney, in “Belfast,” though you can sense Branagh hard at work, straining to keep every impulse toward cutesiness in check.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2021
He was about 5-foot-4 and known for theatrical blarney, greeting friends with a “top o’ the morning” while on walks with his dogs.
From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2021
My primary form of self-care was the constant generation of blarney.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 21, 2019
“You are right to laugh, Captain Short. For a while there, I did believe in all that under-the-rainbow crock-of-gold blarney, but now I know better. Now I know about the hostage fund.”
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
But their handiwork caught the eye of another Democrat, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who had come into the Nixon White House as a presidential assistant, and who blarneyed Nixon into endorsing the idea.
From Time Magazine Archive
Without any influence whatever, save his pleasing address and his wide education, he blarneyed the State Department out of a consulate.
From The Goose Girl by Harold MacGrath
Then we argued among ourselves, coaxed, blarneyed, persuaded, and tried to bribe one another.
From The Ivory Trail by Talbot Mundy
They blarneyed me up and they blarneyed me down, and they said nobody could cook like Paddy.
From On the Firing Line by Hamilton Brock Fuller
I don't want to be petted and blarneyed.
From John Bull's Other Island by Bernard Shaw
Despite blarneying speeches by Evita, a rank & file strike started.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Ah, now, my dear; it isn’t blarneying at all!” laughed Wyn.
From Wyn's Camping Days or, The Outing of the Go-Ahead Club by Amy Bell Marlowe
“Mistress Lyon,” he said indolently, but with the soft, well-anointed utterance of the blarneying islander, which does not die away till the third generation of the poorest exile from Erin, “now, misthress dear, consider!”
From The Dew of Their Youth by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
I think I have heard something like that before, my blarneying Plantagenet.
From The Iron Game A Tale of the War by Henry F. (Henry Francis) Keenan
"Now it's you who are blarneying, dad!" cried Susie, but she dimpled with pleasure nevertheless, and so did Nell.
From Affairs of State by Burton Egbert Stevenson
