0 past simple and past participle of cajole
1 to persuade someone to do something they might not want to do, by pleasant talk and (sometimes false) promises:
Language, as we have been cajoled into accepting over recent years, is powerful.
Should they be manipulated, cajoled, coerced, forced to decide?
Charles busied himself with important political questions and continually chided and cajoled parliament in the direction he wanted it to go.
You promised and cajoled and charmed her into telling him to come home.
She had cajoled him and offered him a bribe.
The idea that they were somehow all cajoled or curtailed in their liberties is not correct.
We did not have to be coerced, cajoled or persuaded into selling council houses or balancing budgets.
They can be cajoled into turning up to vote.
