| \BLAN-dish-muh nt\ |
noun
1. something, as an action or speech, that tends to flatter, coax, entice, etc.: Our blandishments left him unmoved. We succumbed to the blandishments of tropical living. |
| Quotes |
This daughter or Atlas has got hold of poor unhappy Ulysses, and keeps trying by every kind of blandishment to make him forget his home, so that he is tired of life, and thinks nothing but how he may once more see the smoke of his own chimneys.
-- Homer, The Odyssey, translated by Samuel Butler, 1900 |
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