[
US
/ˈbɫændɪʃmənt/
]
NOUN
- flattery intended to persuade
- the act of urging by means of teasing or flattery
How To Use blandishment In A Sentence
- It shouted its absurd blandishments in thick capitals half an inch high. RESCUING ROSE
- Punch Costello was of them all embraided and they reclaimed the churl with civil rudeness some and shaked him with menace of blandishments others whiles they all chode with him, a murrain seize the dolt, what a devil he would be at, thou chuff, thou puny, thou got in peasestraw, thou losel, thou chitterling, thou spawn of Ulysses
- These made nascent officers less susceptible to blandishments from civilian projects.
- The connection must surely at least be that the effect of those blandishments was in fact to cause Mr Sage to decide to perjure himself in the cause.
- That distortion makes us susceptible to the blandishments of our current leaders.
- One of these jokes, a customary one, was that his wife was neither pretty nor young; one of the "blandishments," I suppose, was an epigram by Sir The Age of the Reformation
- Those locks which stung like scorpions along her cheeks were bent, and her neck was bowed in blandishment, and her hips quivered as she went. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- What a whopper, though she smiled anyway over the blandishment. Johanna Lindsey
- A few courageous legislators have withstood the health industry's blandishments and taken at least baby steps to modify the law.
- The playbill of a theatre, a cinema's neon blandishment, an alleyway somewhere. THE LAST RAVEN