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• v  influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering

• It's kind of a Tamogotchi for the home-alone-on-a-Friday-night crowd: through the cell phone, you sweet-talk the cybervixens into dates or out of their clothes.
• Since spring they've been trying to cajole, sweet-talk, bully, threaten, blackmail, and bribe everybody at NBC from the pages to the presidents to get the milquetoast coverage they .
• TV reporters try to sweet-talk their way into the principals' homes.

• wheedle
• cajole
• palaver
• blarney
• coax
• inveigle

News & Articles

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• Editorial: Wish Bloomberg luck in stopping anti-cop bill
  Mayor Michael Bloomberg has launched a last-gasp campaign to sweet-talk at least one City Council member who initially supported the NYPD anti-racial-profiling bill into switching sides.
  July 25, 2013 - amNewYork

Quotes

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• Shaul Mofaz in Al-Bawaba
  Hamas is trying to mislead the international community, to sweet-talk it and to exhibit an appearance of responsibility,Shaul Mofaz told US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs C. David Welch on Sunday.