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Noun
Menu: soda bread with Irish whiskey butter and fried cabbage and rashers; pork bangers and Irish colcannon with red onion gravy and blarney stones and Irish bananas. Gege Reed, The Courier-Journal, 9 Mar. 2022 The blarney is still strong here (lapsing into Irish dialect is an occupational hazard of reading him), but these characters also act. Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2022 Around the Cedars campus and among the Ross neighbors, Mulligan was known for his blarney, with a joke and a laugh for everyone. Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Nov. 2021 The result feels like a film filtered less through real life than the rosy lens of sentiment and memory: a soft-focus Irish fairy tale bathed in love and blarney and a whole lot of warbling Van Morrison. Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 4 Sep. 2021 See all Example Sentences for blarney 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blarney
Noun
  • In a large bowl beat butter with a mixer on medium 30 seconds.
    Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Feb. 2025
  • Instead of frozen pieces or chunks of cookie, Li and his team wound up developing a fudge-like cookie butter that can be swirled into a Frosty.
    Kris Van Cleave, CBS News, 15 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Writing nonsense just to make word / article quotas.
    Harman Dayal, The Athletic, 14 Feb. 2025
  • The Baltimore Sun owes Baltimore Ravens placekicker Justin Tucker a headline apology and let this nonsense go.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 13 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Nonetheless, Dave coaxes Tom stick around after Anne goes to bed.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2025
  • With some creative thinking – and the help of a rotisserie chicken – the team successfully coaxed Barry into coming out from his bear cave, according to CNN affiliate KCAL.
    CNN.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Those harmonies — simultaneously honeyed and gravelly, providing just enough support without overshadowing, yet so powerful and full of potential — echoes Whitten.
    Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2024
  • Enjoy flavored nuts, such as those that are candied, glazed, or honied, in moderation.
    Selene Yeager, Health, 24 Feb. 2024
Noun
  • There is a subtle line between flattery and being creepy.
    Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and the best and most admiring of these Mann-handlers is, by a huge margin, 2018’s Den of Thieves.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 10 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The property also grows its own herbs, greens, nuts, berries, and edible flowers.
    Bianca Salonga, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Focus on whole foods like fruits, leafy green vegetables, fatty fish, nuts, and seeds.
    Lindsay Curtis, Health, 5 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Amidst growing tension, Childress praised the teams' decision to challenge the agreement, highlighting the need for fairness within the sport.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 8 Feb. 2025
  • In between awards at the Friday, Feb. 7 ceremony in Los Angeles, host Handler, 49, stood next to Fiennes' table and began praising Nicole Kidman's 2024 erotic thriller Babygirl.
    Tommy McArdle, People.com, 8 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Boucher was on the hunt for Abba-Zaba, a chewy taffy bar with a real peanut butter center.
    Jessica Ma, Sacramento Bee, 20 July 2024
  • The texture ranges in consistency from an oil-like substance to a syrupy sap or even a sticky taffy.
    Jalen Williams, Detroit Free Press, 9 July 2024

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“Blarney.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blarney. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.

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