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Examples of cajole
cajole
The officers can wheel, assist and cajole these suffering people to their cells.
From the latimes.com
The more you cajole kids to eat something, the less likely they are to like it.
From the suntimes.com
You should be able to cajole the Dualpix, a USB device, into working on your Mac.
From the boston.com
They cajole our President for having the temerity of having a schedule of his own.
From the swampland.time.com
Lenders cajole, threaten and duke it out in court, sometimes all for the same loan.
From the online.wsj.com
We see the way he could manipulate and cajole, even if it was for the greater good.
From the newsobserver.com
Bob took time off from his auto parts business to catch and coach and cajole.
From the pe.com
He will not find it easy to cajole more countries into a large, broad-based effort.
From the economist.com
He has never learned to twist arms, cajole, negotiate and sustain political support.
From the forbes.com
- Wheedle: influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering; "He palavered her into going along"
- To encourage or persuade by effort; to coax
- ("Cajoled") Encouragement ,often lengthy, to reassure and steer a pHD in the direction of something that will benefit them.
- (v.) to urge, coax (Magda's friends cajoled her into drinking too much.)
- To coax, to attempt to persuade by flattery or cunning. I like applying this definition of cajole to the gentle manipulation that we must use to gradually get our parrots used to new situations and objects.
- To coax with flattery or insincere talk.
- (v) - to cheat by flattery
- To use flattery to persuade
