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fair words
noun as in sweet-talk
Example Sentences
“Fair words. Who is to see if they are honoured? What is to happen if they are broken?”
My client replied with words about how this wasn’t fair, words that argued that I told him—encouraged him!—to explore all of his complicated feelings in his essays.
“It can’t be done by fighting or fair words, no. So it will have to be done by means of a trick.”
‘I thank you for your fair words,’ said Aragorn, ‘and my heart desires to come with you; but I cannot desert my friends while hope remains.’
That night the Company was again summoned to the chamber of Celeborn, and there the Lord and Lady greeted them with fair words.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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