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cajoling
verb
Present participle of cajole
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"cajoling" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it when trying to persuade or coax someone into taking a certain action or doing something. Example sentence: I tried to cajole her into joining the team, but she wasn't interested.
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Mathieu Valbuena buzzed around to excellent effect, cajoling and calibrating moves.
In Senegal, the government nipped the epidemic in the bud by cajoling prostitutes into using condoms.
For those who do eventually speak to someone, the chances of cajoling the agency into collecting the correct monthly payment from a non-resident parent (95% of them are male) are not great.
That was how he made others happy and himself rich and famous.There was something cajoling about his prose, something pat about the sequences of events that he purveyed, something soggy in the beliefs he espoused.
It is, for instance, cajoling local banks to merge, adding to the job losses.
The politics sounds like a typical EU non-event.In fact, not so: EU governments dislike being tied down by Brussels, but few will mind tying down their own citizens, or at least cajoling them with tax breaks.
But it was the canal's promoter, a French diplomat by the name of Ferdinand de Lesseps, who was the canal's most energetic midwife, tirelessly prodding, cajoling and lobbying the project to fruition.Along with intrigue, there is also sex though not of the bodily sort.
Certainly, interlocutors from the opposition play down expectations of holding the army to account, instead cajoling everyone to look firmly to the future.
His teachers go door to door in the mornings, cajoling parents into sending their children to class.
The surge has worked better than expected but the politicians, despite cajoling from their American mentors, have seemed unable to compromise.
The measure, misleadingly named the Employee Free Choice Act, would let a union win automatic recognition simply by cajoling a majority of employees to sign cards.
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