coaxing

Speech parts

1. coaxing - Noun

2. coaxing - Verb

4. coaxing - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Coax

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

blarney sweet talk ingratiatory persuade encouragement persuasion charming temptation seduce flattering coax tempting exhortation flattery inducement
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Antonyms

forced covering clearing constraint coercion footing
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Hypernyms

flattery

Examples

As far as I can recall, the initial shiver of inspiration was somehow prompted by a newspaper story about an ape in the Jardin des Plantes who, after months of coaxing by a scientist, produced the first drawing ever charcoaled by an animal: this sketch showed the bars of the poor creature's cage. Vladimir Nabokov

Coaxing drunken Shadowhunters into making fools of themselves was a favorite occupation among the Downworlders, and this performance had been a tremendous success. Cassandra Clare

The information I got from one person often contradicted the version I heard from another, so I'd long ago gotten into the habit of trying to hear as many different stories as I could and averaging them all out. The truth was in there somewhere, I knew it; the problem was coaxing it into the open. George Alec Effinger

She remembered timidly standing atop the Luthadel city wall, afraid to use her Allomancy to jump off, despite Kelsier's coaxing. Now she could step off a cliff and muse thoughtfully to herself on the way down. Brandon Sanderson

True leadership is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you. J. Oswald Sanders

I don't need much coaxing. Carla Bley

Close letter words and terms

coaxial wire coaxiality coaxially coaxingly coaxis Coaxum