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blandish
(redirected from blandishing)

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See: coax, inveigle, persuade, pressure


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You head to the counter, blandishing the gift card Aunt Hazel gave you three years ago.
The incredible shrinking gift card: fees eat up the value--at ... by Benet, Siobhan / Black Enterprise
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.
"Deaf as Ulysses to the Siren's Song": The Story of a Forgotten Topos ... by VREDEVELD, HARRY / Renaissance Quarterly
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