Definition of Cajoling

1. Verb. (present participle of cajole) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cajoling

1. cajole [v] - See also: cajole

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cajoling

cajan pea
cajaput
cajaputs
cajeput
cajeputol
cajeputs
cajole
cajoled
cajolement
cajolements
cajoler
cajoleries
cajolers
cajolery
cajoles
cajoling (current term)
cajolingly
cajon
cajones
cajuput
cajuput oil
cajuputene
cajuputs
cake
cake-slice
cake-slices
cake-walk
cake alum

Literary usage of Cajoling

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Passages from the English Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1880)
"and handiwork of cajoling and strangling travellers, have been removed from the place which they formerly occupied in the part of the Museum shown to the ..."

2. Memoirs of the Civil War in Wales and the Marches by John Roland Phillips (1874)
"He feared that any cajoling on the part of the enemy would carry them over. Had Brere ton's letter got into the hands of the men there is reason to believe ..."

3. Caricature and Other Comic Art in All Times and Many Lands by James Parton (1877)
"faces; I sec their insidious purposes; I see that the object of all their cajoling is blood." A pause ensued after the orator had spoken a while in this ..."

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