honeyed+words
61soft soap — I (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. praise, cajolery, blarney. see flattery II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Informal. Excessive, ingratiating praise: adulation, blandishment, blarney, flattery, incense2, oil, slaver. Idiom: honeyed words. See PRAISE …
62blandishment — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Excessive, ingratiating praise: adulation, blarney, flattery, incense2, oil, slaver. Informal: soft soap. Idiom: honeyed words. See PRAISE …
63adulation — n. Flattery, cajolery, honeyed words, flummery, excessive praise, extravagant compliment, fulsome praise, over laudation, blandishment, blandiloquence, fawning, sycophancy, incense …
64blandishments — plural noun the blandishments of advertisers Syn: flattery, cajolery, coaxing, wheedling, persuasion, palaver, honeyed words, smooth talk, blarney; informal sweet talk, soft soap, buttering up, smarm …
65compliment — 1. noun 1) an unexpected compliment he enjoyed the compliments Syn: flattering remark, tribute, accolade, commendation, bouquet, pat on the back; (compliments) praise, acclaim, admiration, flattery, blandishments, honeyed words …
66flattery — noun she s simply not vain enough to fall for your flattery Syn: praise, adulation, compliments, blandishments, honeyed words; fawning, blarney, cajolery; formal encomium; informal sweet talk, soft soap, snow job, buttering up, toadying …
67lull — 1. verb 1) the sound of the bells lulled us to sleep Syn: soothe, calm, hush; rock Ant: waken, agitate 2) his honeyed words lulled their suspicions Syn: assuage, allay …
68adulation — n 1. worship, hero worship, idolization, adoration, deification; glorification, exaltation, extolment. 2. sycophancy, toadyism, toadeating, tufthunting, flattery, lip homage, lip service, Rare. blandation; cajolery, blandishment, blarney, palaver …
69blarney — n 1. cajolery, wheedling, blandishment, honeyed words, Inf. sweet talk, Inf. soft soap; Inf. spiel, Sl. line, Sl. pitch, Sl. snow job. 2. nonsense, twaddle, blather, drivel, gobbledegook; humbug, foam, froth, bunkum, Sl. bunk; flummery, rubbish,… …
70cajolery — n wheedling, beguilement, beguiling, blandishment, blandishing, blarney, coaxing, palaver, Inf. soft soap, Inf. sweet talk, Inf. honeyed words, Sl. line, Sl. snow job; humoring, jollying, pandering to, catering to, Inf. stroking; flattery, Inf.… …
