"blandishing" meaning in English

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  "pos": "adj",
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      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "blandishingly"
        }
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        {
          "ref": "1844, Emma Robinson, Whitefriars, page 6:",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1869, Jenny's Geranium, Or, The Prize Flower of a London Court, page 28:",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Lucia McMahon, Deborah Schriver, To Read My Heart: The Journal of Rachel Van Dyke, page 353:",
          "text": "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.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Tending to charm and flatter; smooth and flattering, especially when disingenuous."
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          "disingenuous",
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        "present participle and gerund of blandish"
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  "derived": [
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      "word": "blandishingly"
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      "form": "more blandishing",
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          "ref": "1844, Emma Robinson, Whitefriars, page 6:",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1869, Jenny's Geranium, Or, The Prize Flower of a London Court, page 28:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Lucia McMahon, Deborah Schriver, To Read My Heart: The Journal of Rachel Van Dyke, page 353:",
          "text": "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.",
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      ],
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          "flattering",
          "flattering"
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          "disingenuous",
          "disingenuous"
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  "word": "blandishing"
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