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CAJOLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cajole mean?
• CAJOLE (verb)
The verb CAJOLE has 1 sense:
1. influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering
Familiarity information: CAJOLE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |
Past simple: cajoled
Past participle: cajoled
-ing form: cajoling
Sense 1
Meaning:
Influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
blarney; cajole; coax; inveigle; palaver; sweet-talk; wheedle
Context example:
He palavered her into going along
Hypernyms (to "cajole" is one way to...):
persuade (cause somebody to adopt a certain position, belief, or course of action; twist somebody's arm)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cajole"):
soft-soap (persuade someone through flattery)
browbeat; bully; swagger (discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
Sentence example:
They cajole him into writing the letter
Derivation:
cajolery (flattery intended to persuade)
Context examples
And to cap it all, when Mercedes, with tears in her pretty eyes and a quaver in her throat, could not cajole him into giving the dogs still more, she stole from the fish-sacks and fed them slyly.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
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