| Back | blandish /BLAN-dish/ |
|---|---|
| Front | verb To coax with flattery. [From Latin blandiri (to flatter). Ultimately from the Indo-European root mel- (soft), which also gave us bland, melt, smelt, malt, mild, mulch, mollify, mollusk, emollient, enamel, smalto, and schmaltz. Earliest documented use: 1305.] "In his first speech in the Parliament, Mussolini insulted and blandished the legislature by turns." - Thomas Bokenkotter; Church and Revolution; Doubleday; 1998. |
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