cajoling

Speech parts

1. cajoling - Noun

2. cajoling - Verb

Meaning

of Cajole

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And so abolitionists and freedmen and women and radical Republicans kept cajoling and kept rabble-rousing, and within a few years of the war's end at Appomattox, we passed two more amendments guaranteeing voting rights, birthright citizenship, equal protection under the law. Barack Obama

I'm not sure if I can cook. I probably can. But I'm really good at cajoling anybody around me to cook for me. Nina Garcia

Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the poor. George Eliot

Andrew Cuomo, most apparently: New York’s governor has been blunt and forceful, pushing, cajoling and even praising the President on CNN, his desperation for his state abundantly clear. Source: Internet

I’ve tried talking, cajoling, “sneaking” spinach into smoothies, and everything under the sun, and all that results in is a sullen partner who tried some broccoli and sulked for hours afterward. Source: Internet

It’s taken 20 years and lots of cajoling for Susan Rogers to finally take the full-time position as head librarian at the Nakusp Library. Source: Internet

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