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blandish
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See: coax, inveigle, persuade, pressure


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Remember not to purchase overly deficient or long and overly average or profound pieces of womens plus size jewelry because they might not be useful and blandishing in the eyes of the PHAT woman.
You head to the counter, blandishing the gift card Aunt Hazel gave you three years ago.
Dominicus Mancinus's poem on the four cardinal virtues (1484) -- a work translated as The Mirrour of Good Maners by Alexander Barclay in 1520 and as A plaine Path to perfect Vertue by George Turberville in 1568 -- praises wise Ulysses for closing his ears to flatterers: "It is difficult to shut one's ears to blandishing words; and this accomplishment is considered an uncommon feat.
 
 
 
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