sweet-talk
influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering
- He palavered her into going along
• Syn:
wheedle, cajole, palaver, blarney, coax, inveigle
• Derivationally related forms:
coaxer (for: coax), coaxing (for: coax), coax (for: coax), blarney (for: blarney), palaver (for: palaver), cajolery (for: cajole), wheedler (for: wheedle), wheedling (for: wheedle)
• Hypernyms:
persuade
• Hyponyms:
soft-soap, browbeat, bully, swagger
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
- They sweet-talk him into writing the letter
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