BLANDISHMENTS Synonyms: 39 Similar and Opposite Words

blandishments

noun

as in caresses

formal nice things that you say or do to convince someone to do something He found it hard to resist her blandishments and almost always ended up doing as she wished.

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Digging for compliments Shares in mining giant BHP are trading higher in Australia, hitting a two-month high, after the company topped earnings expectations and unveiled plans to pay its highest dividend in four years.

— Leonie Kidd, CNBC, 18 Aug. 2026
Handling compliments about weight loss The pressure to be thinner is reinforced when someone loses weight, whether from a GLP-1 or any other reason.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 17 Aug. 2026

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Instant fame and all its trappings are something most people would love to marinate in, to soak up what almost always is fleeting adoration.

— Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2026
Another work, a small double-sided panel portraying the Virgin Mary and Child with a Franciscan friar in adoration on one side and the dead Christ in Pietà on the other, was also stolen.

— Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 17 Aug. 2026

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