[
UK
/blˈɑːni/
]
VERB
-
influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering
He palavered her into going along
NOUN
- flattery designed to gain favor
How To Use blarney In A Sentence
- Trust the Irish to give it to you straight, with no blarney, when it's something as important as drink.
- Disguised first as a horse dealer and later as a holy man, he successfully blarneyed his way through regions, which were not a part of British-held India at the time.
- Amid the usual blarney about fitness tests and winning the flag for the crew, it was quite refreshing, really.
- It's unfortunate, however, that he has to rely on jaded Irish clichés of booze and blarney to enliven a story that is powerful enough to survive on its own merits.
- He would have much more to be cheerful about and before we knew it he would be full of the blarney, not to mention the Guinness.
- I blarneyed a bit, giving a delicate impression of being in the trade myself, with a client for the empty shop. In The Frame
- He was brilliantly convincing with a strong Irish brogue, righteous indignation when confronted with the insignificance of his rumours, and disarming blarney.
- That was a load of blarney probably told to her by one of his many enemies to give yet another person reason to kill him.
- There was quite a bit of the old blarney left in this extremely complicated New Englandy-Irish lady yet.
- Many supporters have been fooled into thinking the senator was as green as the hills of Kerry but, as it turns out, his Irish ancestry is a load of blarney.