COAX

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coax I. verb tranzitiv

1. a convinge, a îndupleca (prin linguşiri),

he was coaxed into coming here (cu vorbe dulci) l-au înduplecat să vină.

2. a linguşi (din interes), a măguli; a capta / a ademeni prin linguşiri, a prinde cu amăgeli / cu şoşele şi momele;

to coax something out of a obţine ceva de la (prin măguliri, mângâieri etc).

coax II. substantiv

1. persoană care ştie să convingă.

2. linguşitor (interesat), măgulitor; ademenitor (prin linguşeli).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

It had seemed to me sometimes that she liked to be alone with me, or to coax me out for a walk with her, but I had never thought anything of that.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had hoped that in some way I could coax my companion back into the quiet which had been the object of our journey; but one glance at his intense face and contracted eyebrows told me how vain was now the expectation.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Little Em'ly was spoiled by them all, in fact; and by no one more than Mr. Peggotty himself, whom she could have coaxed into anything, by only going and laying her cheek against his rough whisker.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

All the letters he had ever written to her, she kept in a cabinet near her own chair by the fire; and she would have read me some of them, and I should have been very glad to hear them too, if he had not interposed, and coaxed her out of the design.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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