Meaning of blandishing | Babel Free

Definitions

Tending to charm and flatter; smooth and flattering, especially when disingenuous.

Examples

“There was one Rumsey, a creature of Shaftesbury's, a man of very blandishing manners, with a sly, foxy expression of countenance, likely to put⟳ a physiognomist on his guard.”

“Mrs. Spivens could be very blandishing and fascinating when people had money to spend⟳; but a poor girl wanting father—there was something too prosaic in that common every-day occurrence to rouse even into momentary compassion the pinions of Mrs. Spiven's lofty soul.”

“There unquestionably are times in the life of every one, when either through a dislike of contemplating gloomy realities, or from an unwillingness to rack the mind⟳ by the investigation of abstract truth, or mazy science, a disposition is felt for resigning one's self to the enjoyment of those more blandishing scenes which the rainbow pencil of fancy is ever ready to paint⟳.”

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