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Word Meanings - COAX - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To persuade by gentle, insinuating courtesy, flattering, or fondling; to wheedle; to soothe. Syn. -- To wheedle; cajole; flatter; persuade; entice.

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  • CAJOLERY
    A wheedling to delude; words used in cajoling; flattery. "Infamous cajoleries." Evelyn.
  • FLATTER
    1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
  • COZENAGE
    The art or practice of cozening; artifice; fraud. Shak.
  • SEDUCEMENT
    1. The act of seducing. 2. The means employed to seduce, as flattery, promises, deception, etc.; arts of enticing or corrupting. Pope.
  • CIRCUMVENTOR
    One who circumvents; one who gains his purpose by cunning.
  • DECOYER
    One who decoys another.
  • SEDUCER
    One who, or that which, seduces; specifically, one who prevails over the chastity of a woman by enticements and persuasions. He whose firm faith no reason could remove, Will melt before that soft seducer, love. Dryden.
  • CAJOLE
    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. (more info) hence, to amuse with idle talk, to flatter,
  • CHEATABLE
    Capable of being cheated.
  • UNDECEIVE
    To cause to be no longer deceived; to free from deception, fraud, fallacy, or mistake. South.
  • FLATTERY
    The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise. Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. Rambler. Flattery corrupts both the receiver
  • SWINDLER
    One who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice; a cheat. Syn. -- Sharper; rogue. -- Swindler, Sharper. These words agree in describing persons who take unfair advantages.
  • GUIDEBOOK
    A book of directions and information for travelers, tourists, etc.
  • INVEIGLE
    To lead astray as if blind; to persuade to something evil by deceptive arts or flattery; to entice; to insnare; to seduce; to wheedle. Yet have they many baits and guileful spells To inveigle and invite the un unwary sense. Milton. (more info)
  • FLATTERINGLY
    With flattery.
  • ENTICEMENT
    1. The act or practice of alluring or tempting; as, the enticements of evil companions. 2. That which entices, or incites to evil; means of allurement; alluring object; as, an enticement to sin. Syn. -- Allurement; attraction; temptation;
  • CIRCUMVENTIVE
    Tending to circumvent; deceiving by artifices; deluding.
  • DECOY-DUCK
    A duck used to lure wild ducks into a decoy; hence, a person employed to lure others into danger. Beau. & Fl.
  • ENTICEABLE
    Capable of being enticed.
  • GUIDE ROPE
    A rope hung from a balloon or dirigible so as trail along the ground for about half its length, used to preserve altitude automatically, by variation of the length dragging on the ground, without loss of ballast or gas.
  • BEFLATTER
    To flatter excessively.
  • APPRENTICESHIP
    1. The service or condition of an apprentice; the state in which a person is gaining instruction in a trade or art, under legal agreement. 2. The time an apprentice is serving (sometimes seven years, as from the age of fourteen to twenty-one).
  • ESCHEATOR
    An officer whose duty it is to observe what escheats have taken place, and to take charge of them. Burrill.
  • APPRENTICEHOOD
    Apprenticeship.

 

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