单词	blandishments
释义	blandishment noun blan·​dish·​ment ˈblan-dish-mənt  : something that tends to coax or cajole : allurement —often used in plural … refuses to yield to their blandishments … Irving Babbitt Example Sentences Recent Examples on the Web The fateful lane change arose out of one mayor’s resistance to such blandishments. Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 7 May 2020 At the same time, the softer architectural blandishments of postmodernism, promising the comforts of architectural history and tradition, were challenging modernists. Joseph Giovannini, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2020 Her 2014 autobiography, A Fighting Chance, and recent stump speeches are festooned in pep club spirit and folksy blandishments, cloying bits of business that have attached themselves to her life story. Caroline Fraser, The New York Review of Books, 13 Feb. 2020 The region’s main powers, Australia and New Zealand, fear the creation of a mendicant state on their doorsteps, susceptible, in particular, to Chinese bribes and blandishments. The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019 Having failed to win the Japanese around with blandishments, an increasingly desperate-looking Senard has reached for the stick. Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2019 Companies abandoned facilities in long-term host communities to reap tax abatements and other blandishments brandished by other cities. Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2019 From their phones and screens, unemployed and underemployed young Saudis consume the West’s blandishments, as well as the sermons of jihadist preachers and the enticements of global terrorists. Karen Elliott House, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2018 But the sweet glaze of memory, like the blandishment of false philosophy, still offers glints of something darker beneath the surface. Jesse Green, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2018 See More Word History Etymology see blandish First Known Use circa 1553, in the meaning defined above blandishments noun as in caresses formal nice things that you say or do to convince someone to do something He found it hard to resist her blandishments and almost always ended up doing as she wished. Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance caresses compliments adoration regards allurements flattery endearments greetings butter incense praise respects felicitations cajolery adulation taffy congratulations blarney soft soap idolatry sweet talk worship fawning overpraise sycophancy ingratiation flannel toadying applause acclaim smarm cajolement commendation Antonyms & Near Antonyms disparagement belittlement detraction depreciation bad-mouthing put-down
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