Jimmy tried to cajole his parents into letting him drive across the country with his friends.
Source: tatoeba (1993)
Cajole
//kəˈd͡ʒoʊl//
Synonyms for "cajole" (154 found)
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Closest matches (31)
Strong matches (46)
Related words (77)
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Translations
60 translations across 20 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- придумвам verb (to encourage or persuade by effort)
Catalan
2 entries- ensibornar verb (to encourage or persuade by effort)
- entabanar verb (to encourage or persuade by effort)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 勸誘 /劝诱 verb (to encourage or persuade by effort)
- 誘哄 /诱哄 verb (to encourage or persuade by effort)
Czech
4 entries- obloudit verb (to encourage or persuade by effort)
- obluzovat verb (to encourage or persuade by effort)
- přemlouvat verb (to encourage or persuade by effort)
- přemluvit verb (to encourage or persuade by effort)
Esperanto
1 entries- kaĵoli verb (to encourage or persuade by effort)
Finnish
2 entries- houkutella verb (to encourage or persuade by effort)
- suostutella verb (to encourage or persuade by effort)
German
4 entries- beschwatzen verb (to encourage or persuade by effort)
- betteln verb (to encourage or persuade by effort)
- dazu bringen verb (to encourage or persuade by effort)
- drängen verb (to encourage or persuade by effort)
Greek
1 entries- καλοπιάνω verb (to encourage or persuade by effort)
Hungarian
4 entries- gazsulál verb (to encourage or persuade by effort)
- hízeleg verb (to encourage or persuade by effort)
- levesz a lábáról verb (to encourage or persuade by effort)
- rábeszél verb (to encourage or persuade by effort)
Irish
1 entries- bladair verb (to encourage or persuade by effort)
Italian
1 entries- persuadere verb (to encourage or persuade by effort)
Japanese
4 entries- 丸める verb (to encourage or persuade by effort)
- 丸め込む verb (to encourage or persuade by effort)
- 甘言 verb (to encourage or persuade by effort)
- 誑す verb (to encourage or persuade by effort)
Latin
2 entries- lactō verb (to encourage or persuade by effort)
- sublectō verb (to encourage or persuade by effort)
Māori
3 entries- ene verb (to encourage or persuade by effort)
- eneene verb (to encourage or persuade by effort)
- whakapati verb (to encourage or persuade by effort)
Polish
2 entries- naciągać verb (to encourage or persuade by effort)
- naciągnąć verb (to encourage or persuade by effort)
Portuguese
4 entries- adular verb (to encourage or persuade by effort)
- bajular verb (to encourage or persuade by effort)
- lisonjear verb (to encourage or persuade by effort)
- persuadir verb (to encourage or persuade by effort)
Russian
2 entries- увещева́ть verb (to encourage or persuade by effort)
- улеща́ть verb (to encourage or persuade by effort)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- nagovoriti verb (to encourage or persuade by effort)
- privoljeti verb (to encourage or persuade by effort)
Spanish
4 entries- camelar verb (to encourage or persuade by effort)
- cantusar verb (to encourage or persuade by effort)
- empaquetar verb (to encourage or persuade by effort)
- encantusar verb (to encourage or persuade by effort)
Welsh
2 entries- cocsio verb (to encourage or persuade by effort)
- swcro verb (to encourage or persuade by effort)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
I saw the sudden change on the broad's face as she realized that she wouldn't be able to cajole the ticket collector into letting her make it off without any fine.
Source: tatoeba (5278084)
He tried to cajole me into buying a candy bar for him.
Source: tatoeba (12874248)
Then he Cajol'd vvith his Brother, and perſvvaded him vvhat Service he had done him, […]
Source: wiktionary
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.