Synonyms of blarneying

blarneying

verb

present participle of blarney

1

as in coaxing

to get (someone) to do something by gentle urging, special attention, or flattery

attendants at the nursing home sometimes have to blarney the patients to take their medicine

Synonyms & Similar Words

• coaxing
• blandishing
• wheedling
• luring
• cajoling
• seducing
• enticing
• palavering
• begging
• wooing
• urging
• sweet-talking
• buttering up
• soft-soaping
• tempting
• charming
• massaging
• beseeching
• flattering
• wangling
• adulating
• overpraising
• juggling
• importuning
• wiling
• finagling
• cozening
• beguiling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• teasing
• harassing
• nagging
• bugging
• pestering
• intimidating
• bullying
• requiring
• forcing
• making
• compelling
• demanding
• bulldozing
• browbeating
• obliging
• constraining
• coercing
• cowing

2

as in honeying

to praise too much

an eager, young assistant who blarneys the boss shamelessly

Synonyms & Similar Words

• honeying
• praising
• applauding
• congratulating
• commending
• stroking
• massaging
• belauding
• puffing
• buttering up
• flattering
• sucking (up to)
• hero-worshiping
• worshiping
• coaxing
• overpraising
• adulating
• soft-soaping
• blandishing
• wooing
• wheedling
• cajoling
• fawning
• kowtowing
• complimenting
• extolling
• hero-worshipping
• toadying
• eulogizing
• idolizing
• sweet-talking
• felicitating
• lauding
• worshipping
• ingratiating
• gushing
• endearing
• slavering
• slobbering
• romancing
• courting
• drooling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• putting down
• disparaging
• depreciating
• decrying
• belittling
• bad-mouthing