soft+words

  • 91caress — Synonyms and related words: artful endearments, attouchement, blandishment, blandishments, breath, brush, brush by, cocker, coddle, come in contact, contact, contingence, coquet, cosset, cuddle, cutaneous sense, dally, dandle, embrace, endearment …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 92endearment — Synonyms and related words: artful endearments, bait, baited trap, blandishments, caress, charm, come on, decoy, decoy duck, drawcard, drawing card, ground bait, honeyed words, hook, lure, pat, snare, soft words, sweet nothings, sweet talk, trap …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 93pat — Synonyms and related words: a propos, ad rem, adamant, adamantine, adapted, applicable, apposite, appreciated, apprehended, appropriate, apropos, apt, artful endearments, ascertained, at a standstill, batch, beak, becoming, befitting,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 94coax — coax, cajole, wheedle, blandish mean to use ingratiating art in persuading or attempting to persuade. Coax implies gentle, persistent efforts to induce another or to draw what is desired out of another {in a coaxing voice, suited to a nurse… …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 95MEDIATION — MEDIATION, an alternative means for the resolution of disputes in which the mediator, a neutral professional, meets with the parties to the dispute and aids them in reaching an agreed upon resolution. Unlike a judge, the mediator has no authority …

    Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • 96croon — [[t]kru͟ːn[/t]] croons, crooning, crooned 1) VERB If you croon, you sing or hum quietly and gently. He would much rather have been crooning in a smoky bar... [V n] Later in the evening, Lewis began to croon another Springsteen song. 2) VERB If… …

    English dictionary

  • 97blarney — [n] flattery adulation, a line*, baloney*, blandishment, cajolery, coaxing, compliments, exaggeration, eyewash*, fawning*, honey*, incense, ingratiation, inveiglement, oil*, overpraise, soft soap*, soft words, sweet talk*, wheedling; concept 69 …

    New thesaurus

  • 98William Stephen Raikes Hodson — William Hodson, engraving printed as frontispiece to his biography Rider on a Grey Horse, by B.J. Cork, 1958 Born 10 March 1821 Maisemore Court, near Gloucester …

    Wikipedia

  • 99meal|y-mouthed — «MEE lee MOWTHD, MOWTHT», adjective. unwilling to tell the straight truth in plain words; using soft words insincerely: »a mealy mouthed politician. SYNONYM(S): hollow, insincere, equivocating …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 100Assay — As*say , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Assayed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Assaying}.] [OF. asaier, essaier, F. essayer, fr. essai. See {Assay}, n., {Essay}, v.] 1. To try; to attempt; to apply. [Obs. or Archaic] [1913 Webster] To night let us assay our plot. Shak …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English