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  • verb Present participle of cajole.

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Examples

  • 'He laughed and coaxed -- what I calls cajoling -- did Mr. Griff, to get a latch-key; but we knows our dooty too well for that, and Mr.. Winslow had made us faithfully promise, when Master Clarence first came to us, that he should never have a latch-key, -- Mr. Clarence, as had only been five times later than eleven o'clock, and then he was going to dine with Mr. Castleford, or to the theayter, and spoke about it beforehand.

    Chantry House Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • And whatever he thinks he means by "cajoling" in that sentence, it's not what the word means.

    Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 12: The Sorrows of Boobiac. 2010

  • And whatever he thinks he means by "cajoling" in that sentence, it's not what the word means.

    Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 12: The Sorrows of Boobiac 2010

  • My kids are not so resolutely sweet-toothed as I was at their age, so with the right kind of cajoling and suggestions, Ihave an outside chance of getting aremarkably well-balanced meal cooked for me.

    Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's recipes for cooking with children 2010

  • They increasingly see their fight as one that includes tasks usually left to politicians or diplomats, such as cajoling the Shiite-dominated government to extend basic services to Sunni areas where they have been withheld.

    Archive 2007-04-01 2007

  • Our forces are tasked with "cajoling" the Shia-dominated government.

    Archive 2007-04-01 2007

  • Now, said Ms. Vadera, the U. K.'s minister for economic competitiveness and small business, the authorities intend to do a lot of "cajoling" of big companies that aren't paying promptly.

    Do Your Part, U.K. Declares 2008

  • But when it comes to existing customers of companies like the state-owned Citizens Property Insurance, it's hard to imagine what good can come of 'cajoling' from Gallagher's "bully pulpit."

    Archive 2005-03-01 Beach Blogger 2005

  • But when it comes to existing customers of companies like the state-owned Citizens Property Insurance, it's hard to imagine what good can come of 'cajoling' from Gallagher's "bully pulpit."

    Bull from the Pulpit Beach Blogger 2005

  • That kind of cajoling happened behind closed doors at the GOP retreat in West Virginia.

    CNN Transcript Jan 28, 2005 2005

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  • to persuade with flattery or gentle urging especially in the face of reluctance; coax

    June 17, 2009