0 present participle of cajole
1 to persuade someone to do something they might not want to do, by pleasant talk and (sometimes false) promises:
In these circumstances, the effort required to get them to day care involved cajoling and persuasion.
To achieve this, the editors must have put in a huge amount of work, cajoling 63 authors into putting their work into a uniform style.
Official policy, however, continued to advocate persuasion and gentle cajoling.
Cajoling is replaced by hectoring.
Beneath the principals stood thousands of petty dictators who sought to preserve their own difficult position by opportunistic behaviour (wheeling and dealing) and by cajoling their underlings in turn.
Ultimately, with committees working flat out - and complaints about impossible personal schedules and sloppy legislation abounding - central leaders succeeding in cajoling committees to meet their deadlines.
We have been cajoling and bullying that law in the law courts for many years and getting perverse rulings from juries.
That sometimes result in ceaseless cajoling of the tenant to get out.
