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[ UK /blˈɑːni/ ]
VERB
  1. influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering
    He palavered her into going along
NOUN
  1. 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.
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