coaxer
31adviser — n 1. counselor, guidance counselor, mentor, confidant, confidante, therapist; guide, coach, teacher, instructor, tutor, preceptor, director, pilot, Inf. steerer. 2. consultant, resource, professional, Inf. pro, expert; sage, wise man, Solomon,… …
32corrupter — n deceiver, knave, crook, villain, criminal; briber, tempter, enticer, wolf, coaxer; debaucher, debauchee, perverter; libertine, profligate, rake, rou6; voluptuary, sensualist, seducer; lecher, satyr, goat …
33flatterer — n 1. complimenter, saluter, praiser, laud er, laudator; extoller, exalter, celebrator, glorifier, encomiast, eulogizer, eulogist, panegyrist, adulator, trumpeter. 2. sycophant, toady, toadeater, fawner, truckler, tuft hunter, courtier, wheedler,… …
34coax — /koʊks / (say kohks) verb (t) 1. to influence by gentle persuasion, flattery, etc. 2. to get or win by coaxing. 3. Obsolete to fondle. 4. Obsolete to befool. –verb (i) 5. to use gentle persuasion, etc. {obsolete cokes (noun) fool; of doubtful… …
35coax — [kōks] vt. [orig. slang, “to make a coax of” < obs. slang coax, cox, cokes, a fool, ninny] 1. to induce or try to induce to do something; (seek to) persuade by soothing words, an ingratiating manner, etc.; wheedle 2. to get by coaxing vi. to… …
36coax — v.tr. 1 (usu. foll. by into, or to + infin.) persuade (a person) gradually or by flattery. 2 (foll. by out of) obtain (a thing from a person) by coaxing. 3 manipulate (a thing) carefully or slowly. Derivatives: coaxer n. coaxingly adv. Etymology …
37inducer — noun 1. an agent capable of activating specific genes • Hypernyms: ↑agent 2. someone who tries to persuade or induce or lead on • Syn: ↑persuader • Derivationally related forms: ↑induce, ↑persuade ( …
38sweet-talk — verb influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering He palavered her into going along • Syn: ↑wheedle, ↑cajole, ↑palaver, ↑blarney, ↑coax, ↑inveigle • Derivationally related forms …
