cajolery

The word “cajolery” has 4 syllables: ca-jol-er-y

It's pronounced as /kəˈdʒɒləri/


What is synonym and antonym for cajolery?

In the thesaurus, “cajolery” has 160 synonyms and 29 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for cajolery along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for cajolery

  • a line
  • acclaim
  • acclamation
  • admiration
  • adulation
  • alignment
  • allurement
  • alluring
  • applause
  • appreciation
  • approbation
  • approval
  • arm-twist
  • attraction
  • babble
  • bait
  • baloney
  • blab
  • blandishment
  • blarney
  • blessing
  • bootlicking
  • bouquet
  • brainwashing
  • buttering up
  • cajolement
  • chatter
  • chitchat
  • clack
  • coaxing
  • cogency
  • come-hither
  • come-on
  • commendation
  • comp
  • compliments
  • con
  • conference
  • confirmation
  • congratulations
  • conversation
  • conversion
  • convincing
  • courtesy
  • debate
  • decoy
  • dialogue
  • discussion
  • encomium
  • endorsement
  • enticement
  • entreaty
  • eulogy
  • exaggeration
  • exhortation
  • eyewash
  • fair words
  • fascination
  • favor
  • fawning
  • felicitation
  • flatter
  • flattering
  • flattery
  • flummery
  • force
  • fulsomeness
  • gab
  • gallantry
  • good word
  • goose
  • hard sell
  • hokum
  • homage
  • honey
  • honeyed words
  • honor
  • hook
  • incense
  • inducement
  • inducing
  • influencing
  • ingratiation
  • insincere flattery
  • inveiglement
  • jive
  • kudo
  • laud
  • laudation
  • laurels
  • lobbying
  • lure
  • mousetrap
  • mush
  • nobbling
  • notice
  • obsequiousness
  • oil
  • orchid
  • ovation
  • overpersuasion
  • overpraise
  • palaver
  • panegyric
  • parley
  • pat on the back
  • persuading
  • persuasion
  • persuasiveness
  • plaudits
  • posy
  • potency
  • power
  • praise
  • pressuring
  • pretty speech
  • promise
  • promote
  • prompting
  • puffery
  • pull
  • regard
  • respects
  • sanction
  • seduction
  • sell
  • sentiment
  • smooth talk
  • snare
  • snow
  • snow job
  • soft soap
  • soft words
  • soft-soap
  • squeeze
  • stroking
  • suasion
  • swaying
  • sweet nothings
  • sweet words
  • sweet-talk
  • sweetener
  • sweetening
  • sycophancy
  • talk
  • tantalizing
  • temptation
  • tempting
  • toadyism
  • trap
  • tribute
  • truckling
  • unctuousness
  • urging
  • veneration
  • warm fuzzy
  • wheedle
  • wheedling
  • winning over
  • working over

Antonyms for cajolery

  • belittlement
  • blame
  • castigation
  • censure
  • complaint
  • condemnation
  • criticism
  • denunciation
  • disapproval
  • discouragement
  • disfavor
  • disgust
  • dislike
  • disregard
  • disrespect
  • dissuasion
  • hindrance
  • ignorance
  • insult
  • libel
  • neglect
  • opposition
  • prevention
  • quiet
  • refusal
  • repulsion
  • silence
  • slander
  • veto

Meanings of cajolery

  • noun
    1. Cajolement.

Example Sentences

  • Her charm and cajolery won over even the most skeptical members of the audience.
  • The salesman's smooth cajolery convinced the customer to make a purchase.
  • Despite his friend's constant cajolery, Tom remained steadfast in his decision.
  • The politician's cajolery was seen as insincere by the public.
  • She saw through his attempts at cajolery and remained unmoved by his flattery.

On this page you'll find 189 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to cajolery, such as: a line, acclaim, acclamation, admiration, adulation, alignment, allurement.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

cajolement

  • blandishment
  • brainwashing
  • cajolery
  • coaxing
  • conversion
  • convincing
  • entreaty
  • exhortation
  • inducement
  • inducing
  • influencing
  • lobbying
  • overpersuasion
  • persuading
  • persuasion
  • pressuring
  • prompting
  • seduction
  • suasion
  • swaying
  • tempting
  • urging
  • wheedling

jive

  • BS
  • Charleston
  • Dixieland
  • Janus-faced
  • Pecksniffian
  • absurdity
  • act
  • adulation
  • advertise
  • affect
  • affected
  • aggrandize
  • alibi
  • allege
  • allusion
  • amuse
  • annoy
  • answer
  • apologetics
  • apologia
  • apologizing
  • apology
  • applause
  • applesauce
  • approbation
  • argot
  • argument
  • artfulness
  • artifact
  • artifice
  • artificial
  • assume
  • assumed
  • attract attention
  • babble
  • backhanded
  • badger
  • badinage
  • bait
  • balderdash
  • baloney
  • bamboozle
  • bamboozlement
  • bananas
  • banter
  • be at
  • be deceitful
  • be hypocritical
  • be noncommittal
  • beat around the bush
  • bebop
  • bedevil
  • beg the question
  • beguile
  • beleaguer
  • belie
  • bend
  • betray
  • bias
  • bilk
  • bill of goods
  • blandishment
  • blarney
  • blather
  • blow
  • blow hot and cold
  • blow smoke
  • blues
  • bluff
  • bluster
  • boast
  • bogus
  • bombast
  • bon mot
  • boogie
  • boogie down
  • boogie-woogie
  • boondoggle
  • bootlicking
  • bop
  • bother
  • buckle
  • bull
  • bully
  • bunco
  • bunk
  • bunkum
  • bunny hop
  • bureaucratese
  • burlesque
  • burn
  • buzz
  • caboodle
  • cajolery
  • campy
  • cant
  • canting
  • caricature
  • caricaturize
  • cartoon
  • catch
  • cavil
  • chaff
  • chat
  • chatter
  • chatty
  • cheat
  • chicane
  • chicanery
  • chitchat
  • chouse
  • circumvent
  • circumvention
  • claim
  • claim falsely
  • claptrap
  • cleanup
  • clip
  • cloud the issue
  • cock-a-doodle-doo
  • coin
  • colloquial
  • colloquialism
  • colloquy
  • coloring
  • come-off
  • commendation
  • comment
  • common
  • communication
  • communion
  • computerese
  • con
  • con game
  • concoct
  • concoction
  • confab
  • confabulation
  • conference
  • confidence game
  • conga
  • congratulate oneself
  • consultation
  • contortion
  • contrive
  • contrived
  • conversation
  • conversational
  • converse
  • cop a plea
  • cop out
  • cop-out
  • counterfeit
  • cover
  • cover story
  • cover up
  • cover-up
  • coverup
  • cozen
  • cozening
  • crack
  • crack wise
  • craft
  • craftiness
  • crap
  • craziness
  • create fiction
  • crock
  • crookedness
  • crow
  • cry
  • cunning
  • cut a rug
  • cyberspeak
  • debate
  • deceit
  • deceitful
  • deceive
  • deception
  • decoy
  • defense
  • deflate
  • defraud
  • delude
  • demotic
  • deride
  • device
  • devil
  • devious
  • devise
  • dialect
  • dialectal
  • diddle
  • dirty dealing
  • dirty pool
  • dirty trick
  • dirty work
  • disco
  • discussion
  • disguise
  • dishonest
  • dishonesty
  • disinform
  • dissemblance
  • dissemble
  • dissimulate
  • dissimulation
  • distort
  • disturb
  • ditch
  • divert
  • do
  • do a number on
  • do number on
  • do out of
  • dodge
  • dodging
  • dog
  • double
  • double-cross
  • double-deal
  • double-dealing
  • double-faced
  • double-talk
  • drivel
  • duck
  • dupe
  • duplicity
  • educationese
  • elaborate explanation
  • elude
  • elusion
  • embezzle
  • empty
  • empty talk
  • encomium
  • entertain
  • equivocate
  • equivocating
  • equivocation
  • escape
  • eschew
  • eschewal
  • eulogy
  • evade
  • evading
  • evasion
  • evasiveness
  • everyday
  • exaggerate
  • exaggeration
  • exchange
  • exculpation
  • excuse
  • excusing
  • exoneration
  • expedient
  • explaining
  • expose
  • expression
  • extenuation
  • exult
  • eyewash
  • fable
  • fabricate
  • facade
  • facetious
  • facile
  • fairy story
  • fake
  • fake out
  • fakery
  • fallacy
  • false
  • false front
  • falsehood
  • falsify
  • fancy footwork
  • farce
  • fast one
  • fast shuffle
  • fatuity
  • fawning
  • feign
  • feigned
  • feint
  • fence
  • fib
  • fiction
  • figment
  • fish
  • fish story
  • fix
  • flapdoodle
  • flatter oneself
  • flattering
  • flaunt
  • fleece
  • fleer
  • flightiness
  • flimflam
  • flip-flop
  • flourish
  • flout
  • flummery
  • foil
  • folly
  • fool
  • foolery
  • foolishness
  • foot it
  • forced
  • forge
  • forgery
  • form
  • foul play
  • fox
  • foxtrot
  • frame
  • fraud
  • frolic
  • fudge
  • fudging
  • fugiviteness
  • fugivity
  • fulsomeness
  • fun
  • funny
  • fusion jazz
  • futile talk
  • gab
  • gag
  • gallantry
  • gambol
  • game
  • garbage
  • garble
  • gasconade
  • get down
  • gibberish
  • gibe
  • giddiness
  • gimmick
  • gird
  • give a good account of oneself
  • give a hard time
  • give the runaround
  • glib
  • gloat
  • glory
  • gnaw
  • goad
  • gobbledygook
  • goof on
  • gossip
  • governmentese
  • grandstand
  • grapevine
  • grounds
  • gull
  • hanky-panky
  • harass
  • harry
  • haze
  • hearing
  • hearsay
  • hector
  • hedge
  • hem and haw
  • hint
  • hoax
  • hoaxing
  • hocus-pocus
  • hogwash
  • hokum
  • hollow
  • hollow words
  • honeyed words
  • hoodwink
  • hooey
  • hop
  • horse around
  • hot air
  • hot jazz
  • hot-dog
  • hug oneself
  • humbug
  • humiliate
  • hustle
  • hypocrisy
  • hypocritical
  • hypocritical respect
  • hypocriticalness
  • idiocy
  • idiom
  • idiomatic
  • idle talk
  • illogicality
  • illogicalness
  • illude
  • illusion
  • imitation
  • impersonate
  • importune
  • impose on
  • impose upon
  • impostor
  • imposture
  • improbability
  • improvisational music
  • imprudence
  • inanity
  • incongruity
  • ingratiation
  • innuendo
  • insanity
  • insincere
  • insincerity
  • insinuation
  • intercourse
  • intorsion
  • invent
  • invention
  • irrationality
  • jabber
  • jape
  • jargon
  • jaw
  • jazz
  • jeer
  • jest
  • jibe
  • jig
  • jitter
  • jitterbug
  • jocular
  • joke
  • jolly
  • josh
  • journalese
  • juggle
  • juke
  • jump
  • justification
  • kid
  • kid around
  • lampoon
  • language
  • laud
  • laugh
  • laugh at
  • lay claim
  • lay on thick
  • lead on
  • lead up garden path
  • leap
  • left-handed
  • let on
  • lie
  • line
  • lingo
  • lip
  • lip devotion
  • lip homage
  • lip praise
  • lip reverence
  • lip worship
  • localism
  • ludicrousness
  • madness
  • make a fool of
  • make a game of
  • make a laughingstock
  • make believe
  • make fun of
  • make like
  • make merry
  • make out
  • make up
  • makeshift
  • malarkey
  • malconformation
  • malformation
  • malinger
  • masquerade
  • mealy
  • mealymouthed
  • meaningless
  • mechanical
  • milk
  • mimic
  • mince words
  • misguide
  • misinterpretation
  • mislead
  • misrepresent
  • misrepresentation
  • misshape
  • misspeak
  • misstatement
  • misuse
  • mitigation
  • mock
  • mockery
  • monologue
  • mousetrap
  • mouth
  • mouth honor
  • mouthing
  • mumbo jumbo
  • mush
  • mutilation
  • myth
  • needle
  • noise
  • nonsense
  • nudge
  • number
  • obliqueness
  • obsequiousness
  • observation
  • off-time
  • one-liner
  • one-step
  • opus
  • outfox
  • outwit
  • palaver
  • palter
  • pan
  • parlance
  • parley
  • parody
  • parry
  • pass off
  • pass oneself off as
  • pass the buck
  • pat oneself on the back
  • patois
  • patter
  • persiflage
  • perversion
  • pester
  • pharisaical
  • pharisaism
  • phoney
  • phoney-baloney
  • phoniness
  • phony
  • phony up
  • phony-baloney
  • pick on
  • pidgin
  • piffle
  • pilfer
  • pillow talk
  • pious
  • pitch
  • plague
  • plant
  • plaudits
  • play
  • play a trick on
  • play for a fool
  • play the clown
  • play trick on
  • play tricks
  • play-act
  • plea
  • pleasantry
  • poke fun
  • poke fun at
  • pooh-pooh
  • poppycock
  • popular
  • prank
  • prate
  • prattle
  • preen
  • pretend
  • pretended
  • pretense
  • pretext
  • pretty speech
  • prevaricate
  • prevarication
  • profess
  • promenade
  • promote
  • prose
  • provincialism
  • psych
  • psych out
  • puff
  • puffery
  • pull fast one
  • pull wool over
  • purport
  • pussyfoot
  • put down
  • put on
  • put one over on
  • put up a front
  • put-on
  • questioning
  • quibble
  • quip
  • quiz
  • racket
  • rag
  • ragtime
  • rail at
  • raillery
  • rally
  • ranting
  • rashness
  • rationalization
  • razz
  • regionalism
  • regrets
  • rejoinder
  • remark
  • repartee
  • reply
  • report
  • response
  • retort
  • return
  • revel
  • rhumba
  • rib
  • rib-tickler
  • ride
  • ridicule
  • ridiculousness
  • rigmarole
  • rip off
  • ripoff
  • roast
  • rob
  • rodomontade
  • rook
  • rot
  • routine
  • rubbish
  • rumble
  • rumor
  • run around
  • run down
  • runaround
  • ruse
  • sales talk
  • sally
  • samba
  • sanctimonious
  • satirize
  • scam
  • scoff
  • scorn
  • scout
  • scrawl
  • scribble
  • scuttlebutt
  • self-righteous
  • sell
  • sellout
  • semblance
  • send up
  • senselessness
  • set up
  • shady deal
  • shaft
  • sham
  • sharp practice
  • shell game
  • shift
  • shilly-shally
  • shirking
  • shoot
  • shop
  • shoptalk
  • shovel
  • show off
  • show up
  • showboat
  • shuck
  • shuffle
  • shuffling
  • shunning
  • sidestep
  • silliness
  • simon-pure
  • simulate
  • simulated
  • sit on the fence
  • slam
  • slang
  • slanguage
  • slant
  • sling
  • small talk
  • smoke
  • smooth talk
  • snap
  • snare
  • sneer
  • snow
  • snow job
  • soft soap
  • soft words
  • soft-soap
  • song
  • song and dance
  • sophism
  • sophistry
  • sound
  • sound off
  • speak with forked tongue
  • speech
  • spiel
  • spin
  • spoof
  • sport
  • stab in the back
  • stall
  • step
  • stick
  • sting
  • stonewall
  • stopgap
  • story
  • strained
  • stratagem
  • street
  • stretch the truth
  • string along
  • stroking
  • strut
  • stultiloquence
  • stunt
  • stupidity
  • substitute
  • subterfuge
  • suck in
  • sucker
  • sucker into
  • superficial
  • swagger
  • sweet-talk
  • swindle
  • swing
  • swipe at
  • sycophancy
  • take
  • take for a ride
  • take in
  • take off
  • take the mickey out of
  • take to the cleaners
  • takeoff
  • talk
  • talk big
  • talkfest
  • tall story
  • tango
  • tantalize
  • tap
  • taunt
  • tease
  • technobabble
  • tell a little white lie
  • tell white lie
  • temporize
  • tergiversate
  • tergiverse
  • terminology
  • the business
  • thoughtlessness
  • toadyism
  • token agreement
  • tokenism
  • tomfoolery
  • tongue-in-cheek
  • torment
  • torture
  • trap
  • trash
  • travesty
  • treachery
  • tribute
  • trick
  • trickery
  • trickiness
  • trifle
  • trip the light fantastic
  • tripe
  • triumph
  • truckling
  • trump up
  • twaddle
  • twist
  • twistedness
  • twit
  • two-faced
  • two-step
  • unctuous
  • unctuousness
  • unmask
  • unnatural
  • unreasonableness
  • untruth
  • untruthful
  • useless words
  • vapor
  • vaunt
  • ventilation
  • vernacular
  • vernacularism
  • vex
  • victimize
  • vindication
  • visit
  • vocabulary
  • waffle
  • waltz
  • warp
  • weasel
  • whitewash
  • why and wherefore
  • wile
  • wiliness
  • wisecrack
  • witticism
  • work
  • worry
  • wrinkle
  • wrong
  • yak
  • yarn
  • yuck
  • yuk

obsequiousness

  • abasement
  • acceptance
  • acquiescence
  • admiration
  • adoration
  • adulation
  • affability
  • amenability
  • amiability
  • amicability
  • apotheosis
  • applause
  • approbation
  • approval
  • assent
  • awe
  • bashfulness
  • biddability
  • blandishment
  • blarney
  • bootlicking
  • bow
  • cajolery
  • capitulation
  • commendation
  • complaisance
  • compliance
  • compliancy
  • conformity
  • congeniality
  • consent
  • cooperativeness
  • cordiality
  • deference
  • deification
  • demureness
  • devotion
  • devoutness
  • diffidence
  • docility
  • encomium
  • esteem
  • eulogy
  • eyewash
  • fawning
  • fealty
  • fear
  • flattering
  • flummery
  • friendliness
  • fulsomeness
  • gallantry
  • geniality
  • genuflection
  • good-naturedness
  • high esteem
  • hokum
  • homage
  • honeyed words
  • honor
  • humoring
  • indulgence
  • ingratiation
  • jive
  • lack of pride
  • laud
  • love
  • lowliness
  • loyalty
  • meekness
  • mortification
  • mush
  • nonresistance
  • obedience
  • obeisance
  • palaver
  • passiveness
  • piety
  • plaudits
  • praise
  • pretty speech
  • prostration
  • puffery
  • receptiveness
  • receptivity
  • religiousness
  • reserve
  • resignation
  • respect
  • self-abasement
  • self-abnegation
  • servility
  • sheepishness
  • shyness
  • slavishness
  • snow
  • snow job
  • sociability
  • soft words
  • soft-soap
  • stroking
  • subjection
  • submission
  • submissiveness
  • subservience
  • subserviency
  • surrender
  • sweet-talk
  • sycophancy
  • timidity
  • timorousness
  • toadyism
  • tribute
  • truckling
  • unctuousness
  • unobtrusiveness
  • unpretentiousness
  • veneration
  • worship

palaver

taffy

  • acclaim
  • adoration
  • adulation
  • allurements
  • applause
  • blandishments
  • blarney
  • butter
  • cajolement
  • cajolery
  • caresses
  • commendation
  • compliments
  • congratulations
  • endearments
  • fawning
  • felicitations
  • flannel
  • flattery
  • greetings
  • idolatry
  • incense
  • ingratiation
  • overpraise
  • praise
  • regards
  • respects
  • smarm
  • soft soap
  • sweet talk
  • sycophancy
  • toadying
  • worship

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