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词汇 cajole
释义 cajole
verb[ I or T ]
uk /kəˈdʒəʊl/ us /kəˈdʒoʊl/
to persuade someone to do something they might not want to do, by pleasant talk and promises, sometimes ones which are false:
cajole someone into something/doing something He really knows how to cajole people into doing what he wants.他精于哄骗人们为他做事。
I managed to cajole her out of leaving too early.我设法说服了她不要过早离开。
The most effective technique is to cajole rather than to threaten.最有效的方法是劝诱而不是威胁。
Synonyms
coax
inveigleformal
wheedledisapproving
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to persuade someone to do something
persuadeIf she doesn't want to do it, nothing you say will persuade her.
convinceThe lawyer convinced the jury of the man's innocence.
talk someone intoShe managed to talk me into going along.
talk someone out ofI think I've talked him out of leaving the country.
dissuadeI tried to dissuade her from leaving.
cajoleHe really knows how to cajole people into doing what he wants.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Urging & persuading
ambulance-chasing
argumentation
badger
be/go on at someoneidiom
blag
blagger
get (something) through (to someone)
go on
hortatory
hustle
incitation
incitement
jockey
sucker
sway
uncoerced
unconvinced
unpersuaded
unpersuasive
unsalable

cajole | American Dictionary


cajole
verb[ T ]
us/kəˈdʒoʊl/
to try to persuade someone to do something by saying things that please the person or make the person feel important:
She is constantly cajoling her fellow citizens to adopt modern ideas and methods.

Examples of cajole


cajole
Where the moderates coaxed, appeased and conciliated, the radicals preferred to cajole, to threaten and to force.
How she manages to persuade, cajole, and terrorize colleagues to undertake reviews and, more importantly, to deliver them on time is a well-kept secret.
To sustain these strikes, workers had to persuade and cajole, manipulate and coerce to their side, the sundry patrons and power brokers of the neighbourhood.
To achieve this, the editors must have put in a huge amount of work, cajoling 63 authors into putting their work into a uniform style.
The two editors have managed to cajole a highly credible team of 10 other authors to join them in this ambitious project.
She must needle, cajole, and sometimes enrage her fellow citizens to overcome their acquiescence and recover their moral equanimity.
Language, as we have been cajoled into accepting over recent years, is powerful.
We aren't arguing that counselors should push, cajole, and strong-arm their patients.
Should they be manipulated, cajoled, coerced, forced to decide?
While the association in most instances lacks the ability to threaten credibly, it can certainly cajole members and remind them of their collective responsibilities.
Through these she beckons and cajoles her followers as they wend their way across the temporal expanses of the other strata.
What an empty place social gerontology will be when we no longer have his voice to correct, cajole and caution us to raise the bar without lowering our guard.
Charles busied himself with important political questions and continually chided and cajoled parliament in the direction he wanted it to go.
Examinations may have been used just for information-gathering purposes, and removal orders could be issued to cajole the immigrants' parish of settlement into producing certificates or agreeing to non-resident relief.
Beneath the principals stood thousands of petty dictators who sought to preserve their own difficult position by opportunistic behaviour (wheeling and dealing) and by cajoling their underlings in turn.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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