Associations to the word «Blandishment»

Wiktionary

BLANDISHMENT, noun. Flattering speech or actions designed to persuade or influence.

Dictionary definition

BLANDISHMENT, noun. Flattery intended to persuade.
BLANDISHMENT, noun. The act of urging by means of teasing or flattery.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope