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Definition: Cajolery |
CajoleryNoun1. Flattery intended to persuade. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cajolery" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references) |
Synonyms: CajolerySynonyms: blandishment (n), palaver (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Falsehood | Lip homage, lip service; mouth honor; hollowness; mere show, mere outside; duplicity, double dealing, insincerity, hypocrisy, cant, humbug; jesuitism, jesuitry; pharisaism; Machiavelism, "organized hypocrisy"; crocodile tears, mealy-mouthedness, quackery; charlatanism, charlatanry; gammon; bun-kum, bumcombe, flam; bam, flimflam, cajolery, flattery; Judas kiss; perfidy; (bad faith); il volto sciolto i pensieri stretti. |
Flattery | Noun: flattery, adulation, gloze; blandishment, blandiloquence; cajolery; fawning, wheedling;Verb: captation, coquetry, obsequiousness, sycophancy, flunkeyism, toadeating, tuft-hunting; snobbishness. |
Motive | Inducement, consideration; attraction; loadstone; magnet, magnetism, magnetic force; allectation, allective; temptation, enticement, agacerie, allurement, witchery; bewitchment, bewitchery; charm; spell; fascination, blandishment, cajolery; seduction, seducement; honeyed words, voice of the tempter, song of the Sirens forbidden fruit, golden apple. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Cajolery |
| English words defined with "cajolery": Cajolement, Cajoleries ♦ Favel. (references) |
| "Cajolery" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cajolery" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cajolery | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "cajolery"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | miklim (adulation, cajolement), lajkatim (adulation, cajolement, eyewash, flattery, sycophancy, wheedling). (various references) | |
Arabic | مداهنة (adulation, blandishment, flattery, lip service, sweet talk), تملق (adulate, blandish, blarney, butter, butter up, cajole, coax, coaxing, compliment, con, court, cringe, curry favor with, curry favour with, fawn, flatter, flattery, incense, ingratiate oneself, insinuation, kowtow, lick his boots, make, mawkish, oiliness, palaver, servilism, soap, soft soap, subservience, suck up to, sweet talk, taffy, toady, wheedle). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ласкателство (adulation, blandishment, blarney, cajolement, flattery, lip salve, oil, palaver, soap, soft sawder, soft soap, sweet talk, taffy, toadyism), предумване. (various references) | |
Czech | vymámení (cajolement). (various references) | |
Farsi | گول (Bilk, Cajole, Cheat, Crimp, Deception, Gull, Humbug, Jape), دست بسرکردن . (various references) | |
Finnish | mairittelu (flattery). (various references) | |
French | cajolerie, amadouement. (various references) | |
German | Liebdienerei. (various references) | |
Greek | καλόπιασμα (coaxing), γαλιφιέσ (blandishments, coaxings), μαλαγανιέσ, θωπεία (caress, petting, stroke, wheedling), ψευτοκολακεία. (various references) | |
Hebrew | ש"ול (coaxing, persuasion, solicitation). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hízelgés (adulation, blandishment, blarney, butter, cajoling, coaxing, flattering, flattery, palaver, sawder, soft solder, sycophancy, taffy). (various references) | |
Indonesian | bujukan (blandishment, inducement, persuasion). (various references) | |
Italian | raggiro (cheat, swindle, trickery, victimization), lusinga (adulation, cajole, cajolement, enticement, flattery, illusion), allettamento (allurement, bedding, bribe, enticement, inducement, lodging). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | "言 , 媚び (flattery, flirtation), 佞弁 (adulation, flattery), 口車 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ねいべ" (adulation, flattery), くちぐるま, か"'" (admonition, freeboard, in other words, leniency and severity, music, reduction, resolution, return to origins, wind and string instruments), "び (flattery, flirtation). (various references) | |
Manx | breigey (allure, beguile, blandish, cajole, coax, decoy, entice, enticement, inveigle, inveiglement, lure, persuade, seduce, seduction, wheedle). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ajolerycay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sedução (allurement, charm, enticement, glamor, glamour, inveiglement, seduction, witchcraft, witchery), adulação (adulation, blarney, cajolement, coaxing, cringing, fawning, flatting, sawder, sugar, toadyism). (various references) | |
Romanian | linguşire (adulation, apple sauce, blandishment, butter, cajolement, cringing, fawning, flannel, flattering, flattery, slaver, soap, toad-eating). (various references) | |
Russian | умасливание (sweet talk), лесть (adulation, apple, blandishment, blarney, cajolement, eyewash, flattery, lipsalve, palaver, sawder, soft sawder, sweet talk, sycophancy, taffy, treacle). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | namama, nagovaranje (blandishment, cajolement, coaxing, inveiglement, persuasion, spiel, suasion). (various references) | |
Spanish | engatusamiento (cajolement, coaxing, palaver, wheedle). (various references) | |
Swedish | mild övertalning (cajolement). (various references) | |
Turkish | tatlı sözle kandırma. (various references) | |
Ukranian | умовляння (admonition, blandishment, cajolement, coaxing, exhortation, expostulation, reassurance, remonstrance, suasion), улещювання (cajolement), виманювання (cajolement), обдурювання за допомогою лестощів (cajolement), лестощі (adulation, cajolement, flattery, oil, palaver, sugar, sugarplum, sycophancy, wheedle). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự tán tỉnh (courtship, wooing), sự phỉnh phờ lời tán tỉnh, lời phỉnh phờ (palaver). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | blandimenta, blandimento. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Cajolery" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cajolary. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "cajolery" (pronounced 'Ca*jol"er*y'): Acceleratory, Antislavery, Apery, Archery, Ashery, Asseveratory, Averpenny, Babery, Baboonery, Bakery, Barkery, Belligerently, Bewitchery, bindery, Bleachery, Bloomery, Boilery, botcherly, botchery, Branchery, Bravery, Brewery, Bribery, Broidery, Buffoonery, Butcherly, Butchery, Chafery, Chicanery, Cholericly, Cinerary, Cleverly, Clouterly, Clownery, Coalery, Cocoonery, Collaterally, Commandery, Congeneracy, Considerably, Consideringly, Cookery, Covertly, Creamery, Crockery, Cutchery, Deanery, Debauchery, Degeneracy, Degenerately, Degenerously, Deliberately, Deliberatively, Deliverly, Discovery, Disproperty, Distillery, Dodgery, Dotery, Dowery, Drollery, Drudgery, Druery, Dupery, Effrontery, Eggery, Elderly, Embroidery, Emery, Energy, Engravery, Every, Everybody, Everyday, Featherly, Feathery, Federary, Fernery, fiery, finery, fishery, Flickeringly, Flotery, flowery, Foinery, foolery, Foundery, Fruitery, Fullery, gaudery, gendarmery, generally, Generalty, Goosery, Governability, Grandmotherly, Grapery, Gravery, greenery, Grindery, grotesquery, Gullery, haberdashery, Hackery, hatchery, Heathery, Heterarchy, Heterocercy, heterodoxy, Heterotaxy, hierarchy, Hieromancy, Hierourgy, Hoveringly, illiberally, illiteracy, Immoderacy, Immoderancy, immoderately, Imprimery, improperly, Improperty, Inconsideracy, inconsiderately, Indiscovery, Ingenerably, Intolerancy, intolerantly, Intriguery, Inveteracy, inveterately, Irregeneracy, irreverently, Itineracy, Itinerancy, Itinerantly, Jadery, Japery, joinery, knavery, Lardery, Lastery, laterally, leathery, lechery, Lego-literary, liberally, Liberatory, liberty, literacy, literally, literary, loweringly, Lowery, Luciferously, machinery, Maskery, Michery, miserably, mockery, moderately, Modernly, Monkery, Moonery, Mothery, Nailery, Nidgery, Nondelivery, Nondiscovery, Northernly, Northwesterly, Nursery, Oilery, Onerary, Onerously, Operatively, Operatory, Outerly, Overliberally, Owlery, Painterly, Pantaloonery, Parergy, Patchery, Pederasty, Perfumery, Periphery, Pestiferously, Pickery, Pillery, Pinery, Pledgery, Plumbery, Plumery, Poltroonery, Popery, Poverty, Prediscovery, Preferably, Priestery, Printery, Properly, Proslavery, Prudery, Puckery, Puerilely, Puffery, Quackery, Quakerly, Quakery, Quiveringly, Rakery, Redelivery, refinery, Regeneracy, Regeneratively, Regeneratory, Regratery, Reiteratedly, repertory, Reverendly, reverently, Reverry, Rhymery, Rivery, rockery, roguery, rookery, Rootery, Ropery, Rosery, Salutiferously, Sashery, scenery, Schoolery, Scoffery, severally, severalty, Severy, Shiveringly, shivery, showery, Sideromancy, slavery, smeltery, Smithery, Smotheringly, Smothery, Southernly, southwesterly, Sovereignly, sovereignty, Sprechery, Stander-by, stitchery, Subdeanery, Superchery, Swineery, synergy, Tawery, Telenergy, thievery, Tilery, Tinkerly, tomfoolery, Tournery, Towery, treachery, trickery, Trierarchy, Tripery, turnery, Ungenerously, Unregeneracy, Unreverently, Vachery, Veterinary, Vinery, Volery, Weatherly, Weedery, Winery, Witchery. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-j-l-o-r-y" | |
-1 letter: cajoler, caloyer. | |
-2 letters: cajole, calory, coaler, oracle, recoal. | |
-3 letters: carle, carol, ceorl, claro, clary, clear, coaly, coral, coyer, early, lacer, lacey, layer, leary, lycea, ocrea, relay, royal. | |
-4 letters: acre, acyl, aero, aery, alec, aloe, arco, aryl, calo, care, carl, cero, clay, cloy, coal, cola, cole, coly, core, cory, earl, eyra, jarl, joey, jole, lace, lacy, lear, loca, lore, lory, lyre, olea, oral, orca, orle, oyer, race, racy, rale, real, rely, role, yare, year, yore. | |
-5 letters: ace, ale, arc, are, aye, car, cay, cel, col, cor, coy, cry, ear, era, jar, jay, joe, joy, lac, lar, lay, lea, ley, lye, oar, oca, ole, ora, orc, ore, raj, ray, rec, roc, roe, rya, rye, yar, yea. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-j-l-o-r-y" | |
+3 letters: ejaculatory. | |
+5 letters: conjecturally. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 6A 6F 6C 65 72 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- .--- --- .-.. . .-. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01101010 01101111 01101100 01100101 01110010 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a j o l e r y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 006A 006F 006C 0065 0072 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3767768178718491 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Translations: Ancient 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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