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Coaxer

noun
1.
Someone who tries to persuade by blandishment and coaxing.  Synonym: wheedler.






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"Coaxer" Quotes from Famous Books



... nevertheless resolute and sensible in refusing. He has persuaded his brother to fly with him and to go to a university. The one guardian is a narrow-minded tyrant, the other, Winckel's brother, a merchant, a frivolous coaxer. Peter, the elder of the youths, yields first and enters the monastery of Sion, near Delft (of the order of the regular Augustinian canons), where the guardian had found a place for him. Erasmus resisted longer. Only after a visit to ...
— Erasmus and the Age of Reformation • Johan Huizinga

... many women loved Diarmuid, there were many he himself gave his love to; and if he was often called Diarmuid the brave, or the hardy, or the comely, or the Hawk of Ess Ruadh, it is often he was called as well the friend and the coaxer of ...
— Gods and Fighting Men • Lady I. A. Gregory

... farther but the ominous click of a .38 Colt's was incentive enough to make him stop and then he shoved her over and gave her a little steam—just a coaxer. ...
— Danger Signals • John A. Hill and Jasper Ewing Brady



Words linked to "Coaxer" :   wheedler, persuader, coax, inducer



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