MEANING
To coax or persuade through flattering words or ingratiating behavior.
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Words that belong together
- blandish someone into agreement
- blandish a reluctant patron
On the page
He blandished the patron into funding one more performance.
She would not be blandished into endorsing an account she distrusted.
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Word forms
- Base
- blandish
- Past tense
- blandished
- Past participle
- blandished
- Present participle
- blandishing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- blandish
- Present continuous
- am/is/are blandishing
- Present perfect
- have/has blandished
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been blandishing
- Past
- blandished
- Past continuous
- was/were blandishing
- Past perfect
- had blandished
- Past perfect continuous
- had been blandishing
- Future
- will blandish
- Future continuous
- will be blandishing
- Future perfect
- will have blandished
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been blandishing
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Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: blandish; blandishes; blandished; blandished; blandishing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: blandishes.
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