cajolery

• But Caliban's religion of terror, cunning, and cajolery is more estimable than Sludge's business-like faith in the virtue of wares for which he finds so profitable a market, and which he gets on such easy terms. —  Robert Browning
• The primary intent of the report is to repeat already familiar lessons about how to construct and maintain an occupation of a country that minimizes the occupiers casualties, maintains domination via fear, cajolery, and manipulation of the personal and tribal relationships of the occupied while simultaneously convincing at least a sizable minority of the population of the occupying nation that their military (in league with the occupier) is working in their interest. —  CounterPunch
• But the cod and the perch were proof against all our cajolery, and would not be enticed. —  Mushrooms on the Moor
• Hence the study of the British statesman is to manage diverse and antagonistic parties and interests so as to gain the ability to act, which he can do only by intrigue, cajolery, bribery in one form or another, and corruption of every sort. —  The American Republic : constitution, tendencies and destiny
• Some were impatient themselves, others dreaded their masters' impatience as the appointed dinner hour passed by--all combined by entreaties, threats, cajolery, and fun to drive me distracted. —  Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands

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