cajoling
Gentle persistent urging
Cajoling is coaxing or persuading someone through flattery, gentle pressure, or persistent pleading.
Where persuade is neutral, cajole suggests sweetness deployed strategically—wheedling rather than reasoning: She cajoled him into lending her the car.
The tone can be affectionate or manipulative depending on context.
Persuading through flattery
- urgingStrongly encouraging action
- pleadingUrgent heartfelt request
- convincingAble to persuade
- sweet-talkingPersuading through flattery
persuading · imploring · beseeching · entreating · importuning · prevailing · influencing · swaying
Flatter to persuade
- complimentsExpressions of admiration
- soft-soapPersuade through flattery
- blarneyFlattering but hollow speech
- fawningExcessive insincere flattery
adulation · ingratiation · smooth-talking · praise · sycophancy · flannel · smarm · overpraise
Arousing desire or interest
- luringAttracting through enticement
- enticingPowerfully attractive
- alluringPowerfully appealing
- seductivePowerfully attractive, tempting
beguiling · teasing · tantalizing · baiting · beckoning · attracting · captivating · dangling
Soft murmuring sounds
- reassuringRestoring calm or confidence
- comfortingGiving emotional ease
- gentleSoft and kind
- softYielding to touch
tender · calming · mollifying · placating · pacifying · appeasing · humoring · indulging
Crafty and calculating
- cunningSly, scheming cleverness
- calculatingColdly self-serving in strategy
- guilefulInclined toward deception
- artfulCleverly deceptive
crafty · wily · devious · insidious · conniving · sly · underhanded · disingenuous
wheedling
Persuading through flattery
- urgingStrongly encouraging action
- pleadingUrgent heartfelt request
- convincingAble to persuade
sweet-talking · persuading · imploring · beseeching · entreating · importuning · prevailing · influencing · swaying · encouraging
sweet-talk
Flatter to persuade
- complimentsExpressions of admiration
- soft-soapPersuade through flattery
- blarneyFlattering but hollow speech
fawning · adulation · ingratiation · smooth-talking · praise · sycophancy · flannel · smarm · overpraise · toadying
tempting
Arousing desire or interest
seductive · beguiling · teasing · tantalizing · baiting · beckoning · attracting · captivating · dangling · promising
cooing
Soft murmuring sounds
- reassuringRestoring calm or confidence
- comfortingGiving emotional ease
- gentleSoft and kind
soft · tender · calming · mollifying · placating · pacifying · appeasing · humoring · indulging · warming
scheming
Crafty and calculating
- cunningSly, scheming cleverness
- calculatingColdly self-serving in strategy
- guilefulInclined toward deception
artful · crafty · wily · devious · insidious · conniving · sly · underhanded · disingenuous · duplicitous
- persuadingpersuading, convincing, urging, influencing, swaying
- persuasionpersuade, persuasion, persuasive, convince, convincing
- persuasion tacticscharm, butter up, flattery, flatter, coax
- promptsprompt, prompts, prompting, cue, hint
- conflictclash, fight, war, battle, dispute
- deceptionlie, lies, lying, fake, fraud
cajolingcoercing
Forcing through intimidation
forcing · demanding · threatening · compelling · bullying
cajolinginsulting
Showing contempt through words
berating · criticizing · disparaging · condemning · scorning
cajole, coaxing, cajoled, cajoles, cajolery, cajoler, cajolers, cajolement