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soft-soaping
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Verb
Present participle for to praise or compliment, typically excessively or insincerely
Present participle for to cajole or convince someone with flattery
Present participle for to (attempt to) influence, persuade or pressure someone, typically politically
Present participle for to act in a subservient or submissive manner
Present participle for to speak in a manner that is exaggerated and typically not sincere
Present participle for to persuade or use influence on
Present participle for to persuade someone of the merits of
Noun
Gentle persuasion or persuasiveness, devoid of coercion
Adjective
Excessively sweet or flattering in one's speech or words
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Verb
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Present participle for to praise or compliment, typically excessively or insincerely
flattering
adulating
blarneying
stroking
honeying
overpraising
massaging
puffing
belauding
hero-worshipping
buttering up
laying it on thick
playing up to
sucking up to
laying it on with a trowel
praising
sweet-talking
glorifying
complimenting excessively
cajoling
complimenting
inveigling
fawning
brownnosing
building up
waxing lyrical about
fawning on
oiling
expressing admiration for
spreading it on
panegyrizing
working over
charming
working on
commending
paying blandishments to
lauding
saying nice things about
paying court to
humouring
UK
flannelling
flanneling
bootlicking
rubbing the right way
humoring
US
pandering to
wheedling
softening
adoring
revering
venerating
elevating
lionizing
US
brown-nosing
snowing
admiring
worshipping
UK
creeping to
lionising
UK
paying tribute to
sweetening up
crawling to
putting on a pedestal
worshiping
US
beslavering
ingratiating yourself
raving over
kissing one's feet
gushing over
fawning over
falling all over
making much of
groveling
US
grovelling
UK
puffing up
soaping
softening up
sweet talking
overdoing it
smooth-talking
blandishing
toadying
courting
slavering
catering to
buttering up to
fawning upon
roosing
soothing
ingratiating oneself with
stroking one's ego
exalting
more ❯
“After receiving a negative review, the company decided to
soft-soap
the dissatisfied customer with complimentary offers and excessive praise, hoping to change their opinion.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to cajole or convince someone with flattery
cajoling
coaxing
wheedling
blarneying
blandishing
palavering
sweet-talking
beguiling
enticing
persuading
inveigling
buttering up
influencing
luring
charming
winning over
flattering
inducing
talking into
tempting
seducing
wooing
working on
swaying
urging
smooth-talking
prevailing on
alluring
manoeuvring
UK
bringing round
sweetening up
maneuvering
US
getting round
talking
convincing
arguing
coercing
getting
conning
worming
softening up
arguing into
finagling
pressing
decoying
hooking
snowing
oiling
soaping
wangling
bartering
importuning
arm-twisting
getting around
prevailing upon
roping in
soliciting
ingratiating
getting next to
jollying
bantering
working over
encouraging
drawing
making
coming on
jawboning
twisting one's arm
teasing
talking someone into something
soothing
pestering
plaguing
courting
prodding
reasoning
tantalizing
US
stroking
tantalising
UK
captivating
wiling
flattering into
attracting
flannelling
flanneling
talking blarney
using flattery
laying it on
spreading it on
honeying
selling
softening
baiting
tricking
deceiving
ensnaring
inviting
betraying
pulling
leading on
sucking in
duping
entrapping
steering
trapping
mousetrapping
leading
dragging
roping
turning on
drawing in
appeasing
pressuring
jockeying
appealing to
tolling
beckoning
leading astray
training
batting eyes at
cheating
fooling
dangling a carrot in front of
gulling
deluding
misleading
hoodwinking
cozening
outsmarting
outwitting
suckering
tripping up
catching out
bribing
stringing along
setting up
coming on to
sweeping off feet
more ❯
“The salesman attempted to
soft-soap
the customer into buying the expensive product by praising its exceptional quality and unique features.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to (attempt to) influence, persuade or pressure someone, typically politically
lobbying
influencing
persuading
petitioning
pressing
pressuring
pushing
urging
soliciting
swaying
appealing
importuning
pressurising
UK
pressurizing
US
appealing to
calling on
inducing
pitching
politicking
procuring
requesting
selling
soft-selling
sweet-talking
trying to persuade
applying pressure
building up
campaigning for
high pressuring
selling one on
swaying opinion
bringing pressure to bear on
exerting influence
pressing your case
pulling strings
putting pressure on
seeking to influence
soliciting votes
trying to influence
making a pitch for
bringing pressure to bear
Verb
▲
Present participle for to act in a subservient or submissive manner
cringing
grovelling
UK
groveling
US
crawling
kowtowing
cowering
fawning
toadying
truckling
bending
bowing
kneeling
quailing
stooping
wooing
blandishing
bootlicking
creeping
crouching
flattering
bowing and scraping
brown-nosing
pandering to
sweet-talking
curry favoring with
curry favouring with
getting round
dancing attendance on
ingratiating oneself with
paying court to
sucking up to
falling all over
eating dirt
making up to
buttering up
courting
playing up to
rubbing up the right way
sucking up
toadying to
keeping someone sweet
truckling to
pandering
currying favour
apple-polishing
fawning on
crawling to
licking someone's boots
creeping to
curry favoring
wheedling
kowtowing to
abasing oneself to
seeking the favour of
catering to
trying to get on the good side of
humbling oneself
demeaning oneself to
deferring to
bowing and scrape to
fawning over
grovelling to
brownnosing
humoring
US
humouring
UK
cultivating
sniveling
US
snivelling
UK
prostrating oneself
ingratiating yourself
eating crow
bowing to
smoodging to
behaving obsequiously
kissing one's feet
abasing yourself
prostrating oneself to
trying to win over
winning the favor of
cozying up
getting in with
eating humble pie
humiliating yourself
prostrating oneself before
fussing
submitting
yielding
deferring
revering
pampering
imploring
fangirling
fanboying
genuflecting
persuading
coaxing
smarming around
bowing and scrape before
cringing before
laying it on
abasing oneself before
singing the praises of
falling over oneself for
praising to the skies
praising to excess
honeying up
grovelling before
buddying up
falling on one's knees
kneeling before
paying court
caving in to
puffing
cajoling
adulating
showing respect for
making much of
demeaning oneself
honeying
overpraising
inveigling
stroking
belauding
blarneying
massaging
building up
prevailing on
talking into
spreading it on
laying it on thick
softening
hero-worshipping
working on
getting on the right side of
ingratiating
fawning upon
submitting to
oiling
scratching one's back
giving in
knuckling under
kissing-up
kissing the feet of
playing up
prostrating
doing everything for
showing deference
going along with
caving in
paying homage
toing the mark
conceding
trying to attract
trying to ingratiate oneself with
soliciting the goodwill of
seeking the support of
trying to cultivate
giving way
kisses up to
bending the knee
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to speak in a manner that is exaggerated and typically not sincere
laying it on
exaggerating
overstating
embellishing
embroidering
overdoing
piling on
overdoing it
embellishing the truth
giving fulsome praise
hamming it up
paying extravagant compliments
piling it on
stretching the truth
sweet-talking
laying it on thick
laying on with a trowel
laying it on with a trowel
laying it on with a shovel
overstating the case
Verb
▲
Present participle for to persuade or use influence on
inducing
persuading
convincing
getting
moving
influencing
encouraging
pressing
prompting
inciting
urging
actuating
impelling
inspiring
instigating
making
motivating
swaying
bringing
coaxing
drawing
enticing
cajoling
converting
inveigling
provoking
stimulating
triggering
wheedling
activating
bulldozing
squeezing
steamrolling
tempting
talking into
bringing around
arguing into
coaxing into
prevailing upon
cajoling into
drawing in
wheedling into
winning over
prevailing on
selling one on
prodding into
sweet-talking
exerting influence on
sucking in
putting someone up to something
twisting one's arm
Verb
▲
Present participle for to persuade someone of the merits of
selling
promoting
advocating
advancing
furthering
pitching
aggrandizing
boosting
encouraging
espousing
hyping
plugging
propagandising
UK
propagandizing
US
proselytising
UK
proselytizing
US
pushing
recommending
touting
advertising
advertizing
drumming
marketing
persuading
puffing
spieling
hustling
putting across
getting across
talking into
talking up
gaining acceptance for
getting support for
winning someone over to
soft selling
speaking for
winning approval for
convincing someone of the merits of
getting acceptance for
hyping up
puffing up
bringing someone round to
persuading someone to accept
banging the drum for
beating the drum for
sweet talking
Noun
▲
Gentle persuasion or persuasiveness, devoid of coercion
soft sell
blandishment
coercion
persuasion
persuasiveness
subtlety
low-pressure salesmanship
low-pressure selling
soft soap
sweet talk
sweet-talking
enticement
coaxing
suasion
wheedling
inveiglement
cajolery
arm-twisting
inducement
encouragement
urging
flattery
convincing
persuading
pull
blarney
inducing
conversion
flannel
prompting
blandishments
pressure
seduction
temptation
influence
exhortation
con
hook
flattering
influencing
wiles
brainwashing
alluring
arguments
soft power
hard sell
snow job
winning over
soft sawder
smooth-talking
honeyed words
arm-twist
working over
moral pressure
tantalization
adulation
fawning
compliments
praise
puffery
laudation
soft-soap
sweet-talk
guyver
glozing
cajolement
flummery
palaver
inveigling
wheedle
beguilement
lip salve
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Adjective
▲
Excessively sweet or flattering in one's speech or words
honeyed
fawning
flattering
ingratiating
adulatory
unctuous
complimentary
sycophantic
praising
applauding
obsequious
bootlicking
commending
cajoling
sugarcoated
smooth
persuasive
pleasing
sweet
toadyish
honey-tongued
silver-tongued
sweet-talking
sweet-sounding
servile
smarmy
oily
crawling
oleaginous
fulsome
sugary
creeping
admiring
appreciative
encomiastic
gushing
flannelling
saccharine
blarneying
soapy
gratifying
encomiastical
toadying
cloying
nauseating
gushy
slimy
slick
grovelling
UK
deferential
suave
groveling
US
sucky
glib
humble
cringing
subservient
greasy
smooth-tongued
Uriah Heepish
hagiographical
hagiographic
soft
charming
serving
silken
insincere
brown-nosing
smooth-talking
slavish
disarming
mealy-mouthed
effusive
buttery
sickening
submissive
wheedling
abject
creepy
insinuative
kowtowing
truckling
arse-licking
ass-kissing
acclamatory
eulogistic
smooth-spoken
hypocritical
slippery
insinuatory
suggestive
smug
suckholing
saponaceous
timeserving
reverential
sniveling
US
apple-polishing
brownnosing
insinuating
parasitic
spineless
arse-kissing
parasitical
snivelling
UK
bowing and scraping
silky
eloquent
ingratiatory
fast-talking
rhapsodic
supple
coaxing
worshipful
blandishing
self-effacing
lionizing
US
rave
all over someone
lionising
UK
highly favourable
winning
sycophantish
obeisant
subordinate
urbane
compliant
bowing
respectful
compliable
plausible
lavish
generous
profuse
phoney
UK
extravagant
creamy
pinguid
phony
US
excessive
enthusiastic
self-abasing
laudatory
forelock-tugging
overdone
OTT
overgenerous
over the top
over-appreciative
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