[ UK /blˈɑːni/ ]
VERB
  1. influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering
    He palavered her into going along
NOUN
  1. flattery designed to gain favor
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How To Use blarney In A Sentence

  • Granted, the casual observer may dismiss this as impenetrable blarney.
  • And this is where the romantic blarney comes in.
  • Although he possesses none of the blarney and bluster of his southern Irish contemporaries, the humour is droll, earthy and occasionally laugh-out-loud.
  • You'll hear some blarney, but you'll also get a picture of the center that seems pretty true to my sense of it.
  • That night in the pub, Sean's blarney is on top form.
  • Then we argued among ourselves, coaxed, blarneyed, persuaded, and tried to bribe one another. The Ivory Trail
  • A little group round Schilsky blarneyed and expostulated. Maurice Guest
  • There are the old women flower sellers searching for the cheapest blossoms that with their blarney must earn them their livelihood.
  • The old woman's mirror told her that she was getting thin, that the work she had undertaken was too hard for her, and sometimes when the men drove in from the village with supplies (and the Poor Boy hid himself) she blarneyed them into lending a hand here and there. If You Touch Them They Vanish
  • Would you believe that, in the spring after the book was published, a disreputable-looking vagabond with a knapsack, who turned up one day, blarneyed Andrew about his book and stayed overnight, announced himself at breakfast as a leading New York publisher? Parnassus on Wheels
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