Cajole
verb
To persuade someone to do something by using kind words or flattery.
She tried to cajole her dad into letting her borrow the car.
Often appears as...
- cajole someone into
- cajole someone out of
verb
To persuade someone to do something by using kind words or flattery.
She tried to cajole her dad into letting her borrow the car.
Often appears as...
- cajole someone into
- cajole someone out of
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Pro Tip 1/3Often Positive
Using 'cajole' suggests a friendly, gentle method of persuasion, unlike 'manipulate' which is more negative.
Her gentle smile could cajole anyone into helping her.
Pro Tip 2/3Non-Forceful
'Cajole' implies persuasion without force or intimidation, but through pleasant means.
He managed to cajole his sceptical friends into trying the new café.
Pro Tip 3/3Subtly Persistent
'Cajole' entails a level of persistence; the speaker often has to sweet-talk persistently to convince.
She would cajole her grandpa for stories every evening without fail.
Pro Tip 1/3Often Positive
Using 'cajole' suggests a friendly, gentle method of persuasion, unlike 'manipulate' which is more negative.
Her gentle smile could cajole anyone into helping her.
Pro Tip 2/3Non-Forceful
'Cajole' implies persuasion without force or intimidation, but through pleasant means.
He managed to cajole his sceptical friends into trying the new café.
Pro Tip 3/3Subtly Persistent
'Cajole' entails a level of persistence; the speaker often has to sweet-talk persistently to convince.
She would cajole her grandpa for stories every evening without fail.
Pro Tip 1/3Often Positive
Using 'cajole' suggests a friendly, gentle method of persuasion, unlike 'manipulate' which is more negative.
Her gentle smile could cajole anyone into helping her.
Pro Tip 2/3Non-Forceful
'Cajole' implies persuasion without force or intimidation, but through pleasant means.
He managed to cajole his sceptical friends into trying the new café.
Pro Tip 3/3Subtly Persistent
'Cajole' entails a level of persistence; the speaker often has to sweet-talk persistently to convince.
She would cajole her grandpa for stories every evening without fail.
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Video examples
Japan Geishas PIPE National...
Geisha well in fact what she does is tease and cajole she boosts your ego she makes every little word you say sounds like it you know it came out of Shakespeare and she's really a past mistress of that art of making the man
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How to Raise Successful...
and act like our kid's concierge and personal handler and secretary. And then with our kids, our precious kids, we spend so much time nudging, cajoling, hinting, helping, haggling, nagging as the case may be,
Video examples
Japan Geishas PIPE National...
Geisha well in fact what she does is tease and cajole she boosts your ego she makes every little word you say sounds like it you know it came out of Shakespeare and she's really a past mistress of that art of making the man
Video examples
How to Raise Successful...
and act like our kid's concierge and personal handler and secretary. And then with our kids, our precious kids, we spend so much time nudging, cajoling, hinting, helping, haggling, nagging as the case may be,
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Quote examples
Nancy Pelosi
American Politician
My husband and I, when we had our five children and they were grown, we thought we were entitled to grandchildren. And so we were just expecting this to happen; of course, nothing was happening. And then we kept begging, bribing, cajoling, anything - threatening to adopt our own grandchildren - and finally, we got some grandchildren.
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Chelsea Clinton
American Celebrity
My grandmother, who passed away at the beginning of November, had a core adage in her life that 'life is not about what happens to you but about what you do with what happens to you.' She recently had been cajoling me and challenging me to do more with my life. To lead more of a purposefully public life.
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Jason Blum
American Producer
Ethan Hawke is not a horror movie fan, but he's a really good friend of mine, and I finally cajoled him into doing 'Sinister.' Later, he said one of the reasons he was really resistant to doing a horror movie is he thought it'd be really scary on set.
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H. P. Lovecraft
American Novelist
Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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Sarah Hall
English Writer
Art history became an A-level option at my school the year I started sixth form. This happened because another student and I cajoled and bullied the head of the art department into arranging it with the examination board.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
American Politician
Getting past the influence of the fossil fuel industry will take courage, especially on the part of the Republican majority whom they so relentlessly bully and cajole. But we must do it.
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Jesse Jackson
American Activist
Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.
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Kris Marshall
English Actor
So I've never made a conscious decision to cajole people into thinking I'm not that slacker guy from 'My Family' anymore.
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Nina Garcia
Colombian Critic
I'm not sure if I can cook. I probably can. But I'm really good at cajoling anybody around me to cook for me.
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Dennis Farina
American Actor
I don't like to be talked into anything. I don't want to be cajoled.
Quote examples
Nancy Pelosi
American Politician
My husband and I, when we had our five children and they were grown, we thought we were entitled to grandchildren. And so we were just expecting this to happen; of course, nothing was happening. And then we kept begging, bribing, cajoling, anything - threatening to adopt our own grandchildren - and finally, we got some grandchildren.
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Chelsea Clinton
American Celebrity
My grandmother, who passed away at the beginning of November, had a core adage in her life that 'life is not about what happens to you but about what you do with what happens to you.' She recently had been cajoling me and challenging me to do more with my life. To lead more of a purposefully public life.
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Jason Blum
American Producer
Ethan Hawke is not a horror movie fan, but he's a really good friend of mine, and I finally cajoled him into doing 'Sinister.' Later, he said one of the reasons he was really resistant to doing a horror movie is he thought it'd be really scary on set.
Quote examples
H. P. Lovecraft
American Novelist
Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
Quote examples
Sarah Hall
English Writer
Art history became an A-level option at my school the year I started sixth form. This happened because another student and I cajoled and bullied the head of the art department into arranging it with the examination board.
Quote examples
Sheldon Whitehouse
American Politician
Getting past the influence of the fossil fuel industry will take courage, especially on the part of the Republican majority whom they so relentlessly bully and cajole. But we must do it.
Quote examples
Jesse Jackson
American Activist
Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.
Quote examples
Kris Marshall
English Actor
So I've never made a conscious decision to cajole people into thinking I'm not that slacker guy from 'My Family' anymore.
Quote examples
Nina Garcia
Colombian Critic
I'm not sure if I can cook. I probably can. But I'm really good at cajoling anybody around me to cook for me.
Quote examples
Dennis Farina
American Actor
I don't like to be talked into anything. I don't want to be cajoled.
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