blandish

The nurse and governess tried to blandish her, in vain.

Kasuf had managed to blandish, bully, or blackmail every Elder on Abydos to come to Nagada and discuss the planet's problems.

He is surrounded by a series of relatives and friends (played by Enrico Maria Salerno, Renzo Montagnani, Alessandro Haber) who blandish him in order to inherit his estate.

At her right-hand, in this cause, labours fair Josephine the Widow Beauharnais, though in straitened circumstances: intent, both of them, to blandish down the grimness of Republican austerity, and recivilise mankind.