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Definition of blandishment in English: blandishmentnoun ˈblandɪʃm(ə)ntˈblændɪʃmənt often blandishmentsA flattering or pleasing statement or action used as a means of gently persuading someone to do something. 甜言蜜语；奉承话；劝诱 the blandishments of the travel brochure Example sentencesExamples - The main character in the novel is unable to resist the blandishments of the wicked queen who offers him the most delicious candy in the world.
- The detainees resisted such standard blandishments as plea bargaining, cash, or relocation in the federal witness program.
- No wonder the free education generations have proven so susceptible to the party's blandishments.
- For the moment he has been resisting the president's blandishments and coaxing on the war policy.
- Normally, the blandishments offered up by stars lauding their latest vehicle are just so much blah.
- Their own futures depend on sticking scrupulously to what the evidence will bear, whatever the political blandishments from above.
- It should not be enough that he was subjected to blandishments and payment in order to persuade him to give evidence.
- Such blandishments are difficult to catch, she said, and irresistible to rural voters.
- However he was still able to offer blandishments to the bank.
- We have become a nation of children, happy to surrender our judgments and our wills to political exhortations and commercial blandishments that would insult actual adults.
- The contestant's ingratiating blandishments are not a hit with everyone.
- Even after topping a shortlist of four, he resisted the company's blandishments.
- Despite all his blandishments, threats and persuasion, he did not get his heart's desire.
- These made nascent officers less susceptible to blandishments from civilian projects.
- But please, please do not again fall for the blandishments of peer pressure without asking why.
- After spending the last few years trying to understand the pull of the material world, I am far more sympathetic to its blandishments and far more forgiving of its excesses.
- That distortion makes us susceptible to the blandishments of our current leaders.
- He had simply fallen to the blandishments of others to procure a drug they were asking for.
- A few courageous legislators have withstood the health industry's blandishments and taken at least baby steps to modify the law.
- Few present-day Green Party leaders seem willing to urge the Greens to forego the blandishments of a presidential campaign.
Synonyms flattery, cajolery, coaxing, wheedling, honeyed words, smooth talk, soft words, blarney fulsomeness, simpering, fawning, toadying, ingratiating, ingratiation, currying favour, inveiglement charm offensive informal sweet talk, soft soap, smarm, spiel, ego massage, buttering up, cosying up, cuddling up British informal flannel Australian/New Zealand informal guyver, smoodging archaic glozing, lip salve, cajolement
Definition of blandishment in US English: blandishmentnounˈblandiSHməntˈblændɪʃmənt usually blandishmentsA flattering or pleasing statement or action used to persuade someone gently to do something. 甜言蜜语；奉承话；劝诱 the blandishments of the travel brochure Example sentencesExamples - No wonder the free education generations have proven so susceptible to the party's blandishments.
- Few present-day Green Party leaders seem willing to urge the Greens to forego the blandishments of a presidential campaign.
- He had simply fallen to the blandishments of others to procure a drug they were asking for.
- However he was still able to offer blandishments to the bank.
- These made nascent officers less susceptible to blandishments from civilian projects.
- It should not be enough that he was subjected to blandishments and payment in order to persuade him to give evidence.
- For the moment he has been resisting the president's blandishments and coaxing on the war policy.
- Such blandishments are difficult to catch, she said, and irresistible to rural voters.
- After spending the last few years trying to understand the pull of the material world, I am far more sympathetic to its blandishments and far more forgiving of its excesses.
- Despite all his blandishments, threats and persuasion, he did not get his heart's desire.
- We have become a nation of children, happy to surrender our judgments and our wills to political exhortations and commercial blandishments that would insult actual adults.
- Their own futures depend on sticking scrupulously to what the evidence will bear, whatever the political blandishments from above.
- That distortion makes us susceptible to the blandishments of our current leaders.
- But please, please do not again fall for the blandishments of peer pressure without asking why.
- Even after topping a shortlist of four, he resisted the company's blandishments.
- Normally, the blandishments offered up by stars lauding their latest vehicle are just so much blah.
- The detainees resisted such standard blandishments as plea bargaining, cash, or relocation in the federal witness program.
- The contestant's ingratiating blandishments are not a hit with everyone.
- A few courageous legislators have withstood the health industry's blandishments and taken at least baby steps to modify the law.
- The main character in the novel is unable to resist the blandishments of the wicked queen who offers him the most delicious candy in the world.
Synonyms flattery, cajolery, coaxing, wheedling, honeyed words, smooth talk, soft words, blarney
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