coaxed

Meaning

of Coax

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

boughten

Antonyms

become addled was becomed

Examples

We all have slumbering realms of sensibility which can be coaxed into wakefulness by books. Robertson Davies

The outline of our lives, like the candles flame, is continuously coaxed in new directions by a variety of random events that, along with our responses to them, determine our fate. Leonard Mlodinow

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours. Orison Swett Marden

Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought. Pearl S. Buck

Life at the greatest and best is but a forward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over. Oliver Goldsmith

And I think that's an extraordinary spirit of the American spirit of not needing to be coaxed. Source: Internet