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Noun(1) (2) flattery intended to persuade(3) the act of urging by means of teasing or flattery(4) flattery

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(1) Such blandishments are difficult to catch, she said, and irresistible to rural voters.(2) That distortion makes us susceptible to the blandishments of our current leaders.(3) However he was still able to offer blandishments to the bank.(4) Few present-day Green Party leaders seem willing to urge the Greens to forego the blandishments of a presidential campaign.(5) A few courageous legislators have withstood the health industry's blandishments and taken at least baby steps to modify the law.(6) For the moment he has been resisting the president's blandishments and coaxing on the war policy.(7) It should not be enough that he was subjected to blandishments and payment in order to persuade him to give evidence.(8) But please, please do not again fall for the blandishments of peer pressure without asking why.(9) No wonder the free education generations have proven so susceptible to the party's blandishments .(10) Their own futures depend on sticking scrupulously to what the evidence will bear, whatever the political blandishments from above.(11) Normally, the blandishments offered up by stars lauding their latest vehicle are just so much blah.(12) Even after topping a shortlist of four, he resisted the company's blandishments .(13) After spending the last few years trying to understand the pull of the material world, I am far more sympathetic to its blandishments and far more forgiving of its excesses.(14) The detainees resisted such standard blandishments as plea bargaining, cash, or relocation in the federal witness program.(15) The main character in the novel is unable to resist the blandishments of the wicked queen who offers him the most delicious candy in the world.(16) The contestant's ingratiating blandishments are not a hit with everyone.