Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To urge with gentle and repeated appeals, teasing, or flattery; wheedle.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To deceive or delude by flattery, specious promises, simulated compliance with another's wishes, and the like; wheedle; coax.
Wiktionary
- v. transitive To persuade someone to do something which they are reluctant to do, often by flattery; to coax.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To deceive with flattery or fair words; to wheedle.
WordNet 3.0
- v. influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering
Etymologies
- From French cajoler. (Wiktionary)
- French cajoler, possibly blend of Old French cageoler, to chatter like a jay (from geai, jai, jay; see jay2) and Old French gaioler, to lure into a cage (from gaiole, jaiole, cage; see jail). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Why are our trained warriors risking their lives to "cajole" a vindictive Shia government to help poor Sunni squatters?”
“And then kind of cajole and push and say why certain things should work and certain things wouldn't work.”
“Austin's comment reflects the fact that software companies like IBM and Microsoft usually "cajole" their customers into buying more licences than they need - hence the difference between software sold versus software used.”
“cajole" companies, power ultimately lay with consumers, who should reject products which failed to meet the guidelines.”
“And it will take strong inducements to cajole creditors into accepting an exchange.”
The Wall Street Journal: Plan Focuses on Rescheduling of Greek Debt
“Erpenbach responded that Fitzgerald repeatedly overreached in his efforts to cajole the Democrats back to Madison.”
“Egypt's Hosni Mubarak is pragmatic in using his cache to cajole the parties to the negotiating table, yet is unwilling to align himself too closely with the United States or to expend too much political capital on the peace process.”
The Huffington Post: Richard Eisendorf: Who Will Be the Next Sadat?
“Convince, cajole, aggressively push China to drive domestic consumption, and have India, Brazil and a few other countries, maybe including Japan, push infrastructure spending much higher.”
The Wall Street Journal: CEOs Call for Less Regulation, Better Infrastructure
“It's not as if our teacher had to cajole us into cooperation every day.”
The Huffington Post: Miriam Novogrodsky: Divorce Knocked Me Down, Yoga Picked Me Up
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cajole’.
-
Test Prep or Just for fun
Building a list for standardized test prep or just for learning some new words! Please add any words that you feel are important for the SAT/GRE/GMAT etc...
throng, morass, parley, facile, kismet, strife, jetsam, carrion, annex, harbinger, vestige, surreptitious and 575 more...
-
1100
abound, technology, branch of knowled..., prognosticate, automaton, matron, an older married ..., realm, special field of ..., kingdom, annals, historical records and 981 more...
-
GRE 2014
abate, abdicate, abase, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
-
hunting
crudely, unequivocal, obsolete, obscure, overtly, misdeed, shack, inherent, outcry, hefty, composed, poised and 315 more...
-
3/4 year Vocab List
voracious, indiscriminate, eminent, steeped, replete, awe, buffoon, abound, technology, prognosticate, automaton, matron and 96 more...
-
3/4 year Vocab List
voracious, indiscriminate, eminent, steeped, replete, awe, buffoon, abound, technology, prognosticate, automaton, matron and 96 more...
-
my fab list
blowsabella, aperçu, froideur, salubrious, abject, gallipot, mumchance, wainscot, virago, macerate, lascivious, clandestine and 181 more...
-
SAT Words
But only the ones that I don't already know.
abase, abash, abominate, abstruse, acclivity, accolade, accost, adroit, adulate, adulterate, adumbrate, affray and 241 more...
-
(1st_wk_150)-Dec_5_2012
replete, steeped, eminent, indiscriminate, voracious, automaton, prognosticate, technology, abound, matron, tinge, compound and 297 more...
-
Come right this way!
Words that draw us toward an object or destination.
lure, tempt, suck in, summon, seduce, pull, persuade, inveigle, fascinate, entrap, enchant, draw and 12 more...
-
GRE
intrepid, accost, reticent, furtive, pretext, gesticulate, cajole, nuance, lackluster, jostle, incipient, inadvertent and 4 more...
-
GRE 1100
drudgery, implore, hapless, nuance, wrest, incipient, inadvertent, tremulous, bristle, euphemism, disdain, pugnacious and 346 more...
-
Old words
recalcitrant, grok, Hiatus, shanghai, pervade, diffuse, tempestuous, incorrigible, daunt, cull, Erudite, Assuage and 34 more...
-
ash vocab
flippant, fillip, expiate, explicate, extirpate, facile, florid, fealty, allegiance, fetid, febrile, pert and 134 more...
-
SAT Words
But only the ones that I don't already know.
abase, abash, abominate, abstruse, acclivity, accolade, accost, adroit, adulate, adulterate, adumbrate, affray and 241 more...
-
1100 words you need to know
GRE words
voracious, indiscriminate, replete, steeped, eminent, perceive, intrepid, compound, automaton, reticent, interminable, drudgery and 288 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for cajole.
curtiss A fuller definition from the American Heritage Dictionary:
(v.t.)
1. To persuade by flattery, gentle pleading, or insincere language.
2. To elicit or obtain by flattery, gentle pleading, or insincere language: The athlete cajoled a signing bonus out of the team's owner.
Jul 24, 2011
fbharjo bluejay talk Feb 9, 2007