| 例句 |
blarneyingverbpresent participle of blarney to get (someone) to do something by gentle urging, special attention, or flatteryattendants at the nursing home sometimes have to blarney the patients to take their medicine blandishing, cajoling, coaxing, palavering, soft-soaping, sweet-talking, wheedling adulating, flattering, overpraisingbuttering up, charming, massaging, wooingbegging, beseeching, importuning, urgingbeguiling, cozening, finagling, juggling, wangling, wilingenticing, luring, seducing, tempting bugging, harassing, nagging, pestering, teasingbrowbeating, bulldozing, bullying, cowing, intimidatingcoercing, compelling, constraining, demanding, forcing, making, obliging, requiring to praise too muchan eager, young assistant who blarneys the boss shamelessly adulating, belauding, buttering up, flattering, hero-worshipping(also hero-worshiping), honeying, massaging, overpraising, puffing, soft-soaping, stroking blandishing, cajoling, coaxing, sweet-talking, wheedlingfawning, kowtowing, sucking (up to), toadyingidolizing, worshipping(also worshiping)eulogizing, extolling, lauding, praisingapplauding, commending, complimentingcongratulating, felicitatingdrooling, gushing, slavering, slobberingendearing, ingratiatingcourting, romancing, wooing bad-mouthing, belittling, decrying, depreciating, disparaging, putting down |