blandish


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Synonyms for blandish

to persuade or try to persuade by gentle persistent urging or flattery

to compliment excessively and ingratiatingly

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# THE 1948 British-made yarn starred Linden Travers as the eponymous Miss Blandish with Jack La Rue as Slim Grisson, Walter Crisham and Eddie Schulz and MacDonald Parke as Doc.
50 YEARS AGO: A attack on the film "No Orchids for Miss Blandish" was made at a Dudley Town Council meeting last night by Cllr A L Hillmann, a member of the Watch committee who saw a private exhibition of the film in Birmingham.
What Ribadu is not permitted to display this blandish politician's affiliation and yet go away with the public image he effortlessly garnered while he was in the saddle as a widely-feared EFCC czar as a cousin of angel Gabriel.
Born in the Bay Area, they met in Los Angeles, made a name on Broadway, played the lamed London Palladium, and danced through Hollywood in films like No Orchids fur Miss Blandish and Happiness Ahead.
But probably the most exciting was No Orchids For Miss Blandish, an American kidnap story, later made into a movie called The Grissom Gang.
Sharp Emil Herrera Sisseretta Blandish Isabell Monk Clerk, Rev.
There has been so much fuss on the part of the military thereafter, apparently egged on by the passion of military espirit de corps and the anger that a band of felons could peremptorily take the life of a General with such blandish impunity.
There were no orchids for Miss Blandish, or indeed for anyone else at the weekend's Gateshead Flower Show ( not if you were looking at the Dobbies flower display.
have already been considered for us" from a standardised (and thus blandished and familiar) set of aesthetic and pragmatic values.
Would he be so vain and blandished as to limit his strictures simply because the system now in place paraded in his name?
A Third World was created under the tutelage of the industrialized states, a world that was to be blandished and instructed in the ways of development.
He was lured to England and blandished at Bowood, Lord Lansdowne's stately seat in Wiltshire.