Crossword-Solution: BLANDISHMENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Blandishment | n. | 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. |
We have 16 clues for the answer “BLANDISHMENT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| flattery intended to persuade | 3 answers |
| Endearment | 8 answers |
| Adulation | 20 answers |
| Commendation | 47 answers |
| attractiveness | 54 answers |
| Blarney ___ | 56 answers |
| submission | 62 answers |
| Flattery | 72 answers |
| Acclaim | 75 answers |
| Enjoyment | 80 answers |
| Attraction | 85 answers |
| Esteem | 87 answers |
| Liveliness | 91 answers |
| Approval | 95 answers |
| Grace | 96 answers |
| Touch | 105 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERETA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BLANDISHMENT (5)
LXXV Then to the maid he goes submissively, With gentle blandishment and humble mood; As the dog greets his lord with frolic glee, Whom, some short season past, he had not viewed.
Nor is need the least For wives to use the motions of blandishment; For thus the woman hinders and resists Her own conception, if too joyously Herself she treats the Venus of the man With haunches heaving, and with all her bosom Now yielding like the billows of the sea-- Aye, from the ploughshare's even course and track She throws the furrow, and from proper places Deflects the spurt of seed.
But he gained nothing more, for the coy creature abruptly developed most effective powers of resistance to every blandishment that went beyond strictest propriety.
And when Cassidy had replied in the negative, he again faced the adventuress with a mocking grin--in which mockery, too, was a fair fragment for himself, who had been so thoroughly within her toils of blandishment.
Well we remembered Ileen's love of frankness and honesty--how she treasured truth and candor above vain compliment and blandishment.
Quotes with BLANDISHMENT (1)
The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.