blandishment
flattering or coaxing speech meant to persuade
Blandishment in a sentence
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No amount of blandishment could change the committee's verdict.
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Verbal · Text Completion
Critics initially dismissed the composer's late works as merely blank, but later scholars recognized in them a deliberate restraint that concealed considerable technical sophistication.
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marked by riotous, unrestrained revelry and drunken festivity
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to swell or puff out, or to increase rapidly in amount or size
lacking originality and so dull or commonplace
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