'Blandishment' definitions:
Definition of 'blandishment'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Blandishment'
From: GCIDE
- Blandishment \Blan"dish*ment\, n. [Cf. OF. blandissement.] The act of blandishing; a word or act expressive of affection or kindness, and tending to win the heart; soft words and artful caresses; cajolery; allurement. [1913 Webster]
- Cowering low with blandishment. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Attacked by royal smiles, by female blandishments. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'blandishment'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adulation,
- agacerie,
- allure,
- allurement,
- appeal,
- artful endearments,
- attraction,
- attractiveness,
- beguilement,
- beguiling,
- bewitchery,
- bewitchment,
- blandishments,
- blarney,
- bunkum,
- buttonholing,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- captivation,
- caress,
- charisma,
- charm,
- charmingness,
- coaxing,
- come-hither,
- compliment,
- conning,
- dunning,
- enchantment,
- endearment,
- engagement,
- enlistment,
- enthrallment,
- enticement,
- entrapment,
- exhortation,
- eyewash,
- fair words,
- fascination,
- fawning,
- flattery,
- flirtation,
- forbidden fruit,
- glamour,
- grease,
- honeyed phrases,
- honeyed words,
- hortation,
- importunateness,
- importunity,
- incense,
- inducement,
- interest,
- inveiglement,
- invitation,
- jawboning,
- lobbying,
- magnetism,
- nagging,
- oil,
- palaver,
- pat,
- persuasion,
- pestering,
- plaguing,
- plying,
- praise,
- preaching,
- preachment,
- pressing,
- pressure,
- pretty lies,
- sales talk,
- salesmanship,
- seducement,
- seduction,
- seductiveness,
- selling,
- sex appeal,
- snaring,
- snow job,
- soap,
- soft soap,
- soft words,
- solicitation,
- suasion,
- sweet nothings,
- sweet talk,
- sweet words,
- sycophancy,
- tantalization,
- teasing,
- temptation,
- urgency,
- urging,
- wheedling,
- winning ways,
- winsomeness,
- witchery,
- wooing,
- working on