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
To many would-be publishers, the title sounded like a bunch of blarney — even in the early 1990s, many people still considered Ireland a conservative backwater and a cultural appendage to Britain.
From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 2022
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
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
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
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
I don't want to be petted and blarneyed.
From John Bull's Other Island by Bernard Shaw
A little group round Schilsky blarneyed and expostulated.
From Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson
Despite blarneying speeches by Evita, a rank & file strike started.
From Time Magazine Archive
Waiting for their turn, the fish-women were blarneying with customs men or idlers who stood about looking at the big fish with the curiosity of landlubbers.
From Mayflower (Flor de mayo) A Tale of the Valencian Seashore by Arthur Livingston
Some have furloughs, and start at once for home, sometimes amid great chaffing and blarneying.
From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman
"Well, my love, you have got a blarneying tongue, and no mistake; but now, when I do get to Nortonbury, what am I to do?"
From Red Rose and Tiger Lily or, In a Wider World by L. T. Meade
Strong-willed woman as she was, he knew that Cedric would rule her utterly; the lad's wheedling ways and blarneying tongue had already won her heart.
From Herb of Grace by Rosa Nouchette Carey
