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Cajole meaning
To persuade someone to do something which they are reluctant to do, especially by flattery or promises; to coax.
Example sentences (20)
Although a very thorny dossier still remains: How to deal with, cajole, and satisfy the Taliban leadership in Kabul.
But his quasi-Shermanesque statement leaves Newsom with two unpalatable options for running in 2028: Break his word, or cajole Harris out of the race.
Money is needed to bribe and cajole.
Politicians have consistently abused this dependency to cajole people for support.
For months, Qatar, the United States and Egypt have been trying to cajole Israel and Hamas into accepting a truce and an exchange of captives that could help bring the seven-month war to a close.
He added, “This is because of the influence of some of the governors, who tried to cajole them to fall in line.
She expects further rate drops to soon cajole people back into the market.
The new signs are a way to "nudge and cajole" lorry drivers to avoid using Kingshill Road.
Bryan Carver has made a big impression of late but he'll need to cajole his mount into contention at just the right time if he wants to land another victory here.
But on the other hand, trying to cajole or plead or shame someone out of a powerfully felt food aversion just seems like setting yourself up for failure, alienating their trust and affection, and driving yourself up the wall.
It is crunch time for the Trump administration’s drive to persuade, cajole, and demand that US allies, particularly in NATO, forgo installing Huawei equipment in the rollout of 5G wireless networks.
The phrase is on the one hand a politically-correct and ingratiating semaphore of social virtue claimed by the moral pariahs of the day, those who shamelessly flatter and cajole to maintain their status and pursue their advantage.
Difficult, because today’s politicians may not have the stamina to explain problems and cajole debates on real issues.
Everyone started dancing with high kicks appropriate for the era, including then-72-year-old retired ballroom dancer Kitty Todd, and I sank onto a park bench while my friends tried to cajole me into joining the dance.
He also tried to cajole her with quarters and a sock wishing her an early Christmas.
Instead, he managed to cajole a few major industrial behemoths into keeping a minor amount of assembly-line occupations going until the cameras were pointed elsewhere.
Patrick Reed followed his clutch shots with fist pumps, arm waves and a hand cupped to his ear to cajole a home crowd hardly needing more encouragement.
Why had it spent so many years in protracted, back-channel negotiations with the fraternity, in a pointless campaign to cajole it into voluntarily rejoining Program Housing, when it could have pulled the trigger on this effective solution at any time?
And now they must try to cajole a seemingly skeptical Calgary electorate, which votes Nov. 13 in a plebiscite to proceed or not with Calgary’s sequel Winter Games.
There does seem to be a method to Trump’s global madness: He likes to lambaste allies but flatter and cajole America’s adversaries.