Coaxing

(adj.) pleasingly persuasive or intended to persuade; 'a coaxing and obsequious voice'; 'her manner is quiet and ingratiatory and a little too agreeable' .

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• She had pretty, coaxing ways, as you might say, and I thought there was no harm in letting her just put her head through the door. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Neither threats nor coaxing could avail: he could not count on any persistent fear nor on any promise. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• She had almost got a second supply out of me the other day; with her coaxing ways. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Of course he could not feel real anger on his side: the match was too unequal in every way; he tried soothing and coaxing. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• I had gone up to ask him about you, and he was very offensive; accused me of coaxing you away from the service of the firm, and that sort of thing. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• The discourse seemed well adapted to their capacities, and was delivered in a pleasing, familiar manner, coaxing them, as it were, to be good. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• And so, by dint of alternate coaxing and commanding, he contrived to get them all once more enclosed in their separate dormitories. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I tried coaxing, and coaxing failed. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Caliphronas, with that wonderful power he had over all animals, advanced, nude as he was, up the bank, and called to the horse in a coaxing tone. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• But he was not a bad master--he had a monstrous civil tongue of his own, and a jolly, easy, coaxing way with him. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• He had carefully withheld all promise to do so; but would he be proof against her coaxing and argument? 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Cajolements, coaxings, smiles, tears could not satisfy Sir Pitt, and he had something very like a quarrel with his once admired Becky. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.

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