blandishing

comparative more blandishing · superlative most blandishing

1. Tending to charm and flatter; smooth and flattering, especially when disingenuous.

   There was one Rumsey, a creature of Shaftesbury's, a man of very blandishing manners, with a sly, foxy expression of countenance, likely to put a physiognomist on his guard.

   1844, Emma Robinson, Whitefriars, page 6

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   Mrs. Spivens could be very blandishing and fascinating when people had money to spend; but a poor girl wanting father—there was something too prosaic in that common every-day occurrence to rouse even into momentary compassion the pinions of Mrs. Spiven's lofty soul.

   1869, Jenny's Geranium, Or, The Prize Flower of a London Court, page 28

   There unquestionably are times in the life of every one, when either through a dislike of contemplating gloomy realities, or from an unwillingness to rack the mind by the investigation of abstract truth, or mazy science, a disposition is felt for resigning one's self to the enjoyment of those more blandishing scenes which the rainbow pencil of fancy is ever ready to paint.

   2015, Lucia McMahon, Deborah Schriver, To Read My Heart: The Journal of Rachel Van Dyke, page 353

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of blandish