Usually means: Persuade someone through flattery, coaxing.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. blandish: Merriam-Webster
  2. blandish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. blandish: Collins English Dictionary
  4. blandish: Vocabulary.com
  5. Blandish, blandish: Wordnik
  6. blandish: Wiktionary
  7. blandish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. blandish: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. blandish: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Blandish, blandish: Dictionary.com
  11. blandish: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Blandish: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Blandish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. blandish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. blandish: Rhymezone
  16. Blandish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. blandish: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. blandish: FreeDictionary.org
  19. blandish: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. blandish: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. blandish: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. blandish: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. blandish: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (blandish)

verb:  (transitive) To persuade someone by using flattery; to cajole.
verb:  (transitive) To praise someone dishonestly; to flatter or butter up.

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