Crossword clues for cajole
cajole
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cajole \Ca*jole"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Cajoled; p. pr. & vb. n. Cajoling.] [F. cajoler, orig., to chatter like a bird in a cage, to sing; hence, to amuse with idle talk, to flatter, from the source of OF. goale, jaiole, F. ge[^o]le, dim. of cage a cage. See Cage, Jail.] To deceive with flattery or fair words; to wheedle.
I am not about to cajole or flatter you into a
reception of my views.
--F. W.
Robertson.
Syn: To flatter; wheedle; delude; coax; entrap.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive and intransitive English) To persuade someone to do something which they are reluctant to do, especially by flattery or promises; to coax.
WordNet
Usage examples of "cajole".
Repeatedly looking back over his shoulder, Simna ibn Sind tried to cajole more speed out of the solid but clunky windwagon.
When I was in love I did not encourage my friends to cajole my sweetheart, but I became full of complaisance when time had cooled the heat of my passion.
The feeders were cajoling her, enticing her, trying to cloud her thinking further so that she would take those last few steps.
I recall all the circumstances, I think I can see a little into the springs and motives which being cunningly presented to me under various disguises, induced me to set about performing the part I did, besides cajoling me into the delusion that it was a choice resulting from my own unbiased freewill and discriminating judgment.
This afternoon he had humbled himself with Angelique and cajoled and begged and pleaded and menaced until she had given him a brooch in lieu of money.
For Cassidy, there were too many Beltway engagements, too many colleagues to romance and inveigle and bully and cajole into doing the right thing.
His next job, to cajole Kayla into brushing her teeth, putting on her jammies, and picking out a story for night-night.
Coaxed and cajoled with relentless enthusiasm by her niece, Pru finally agreed that she and Nicholas would join them.
And, what was worse, by the manner in which the women of various colors were being cajoled toward the stage in shackled feet, Ronda knew they were unwilling auction chattel.
I should have left it out, perhaps, in speaking to a lady, but the public is not a pretty woman whom I am intent on cajoling, my only aim is to be instructive.
Chavigni was one of those men who were sent by France to such powers as she wished to cajole and to win over to her interests.
Upon such an instrument did the heavenly maid beguile the time when she was yet uncouthly young--at the hoydenish age when men also cajoled her with clicking sticks and the beating of hollow logs, and music was but a variety of noise.
Calabria wheedling, remonstrating, cajoling and patronizing the new master by turns, now for his misguided notions of fairness in dealing with the striking miners, now for the uses of influence in getting ahead, breaking off for a highly theatrical interlude of mugging and arson and here came the playful glissando again as new comic possibilities emerged in the parade of petty thieves, rumpots, fugitives from wives and creditors and a brace of Chippewa Indians being cursorily questioned, pummeled, browbeaten, paid and fleeced as recruits for the Union army by the mine manager in his time away from raising stores of vermifuges, decorative sabres, trusses and mule feed cut with sand in the patriotic cause.
Added to that was the hassle of cajoling, browbeating or begging suppliers for their customer lists.
The two mares quarreled, cajoled, discussed and reconciled, each seeking to convince the other to join her.