[
US
/ˈbɫændɪʃmənt/
]
NOUN
- flattery intended to persuade
- the act of urging by means of teasing or flattery
How To Use blandishment In A Sentence
- So far, so good, so much more credible—and spoiled only slightly by the blandishment that those that fail should present plans for recapitalization "as swiftly as possible. Is This the End of the Beginning for the Euro Crisis?
- The law, the church, letters, art, and politics all enticed him; but he could not decide of which mistress the blandishments were the sweetest. The Bertrams
- We have become a nation of children, happy to surrender our judgments and our wills to political exhortations and commercial blandishments that would insult actual adults.
- It should not be enough that he was subjected to blandishments and payment in order to persuade him to give evidence.
- Most likely he would have adopted this course in the end, had his will and his self-regard been stronger; but neither, it seems, was proof against the blandishments of the match-making perruquier. Story-Lives of Great Musicians
- But please, please do not again fall for the blandishments of peer pressure without asking why.
- Magnard himself was a natural contrapuntist, often seeming wilfully to shun the blandishments of orchestral colour.
- What red-blooded male could resist such blandishments?
- The main character in the novel is unable to resist the blandishments of the wicked queen who offers him the most delicious candy in the world.
- The detainees resisted such standard blandishments as plea bargaining, cash, or relocation in the federal witness program.