entreaties, cajolery, siren song, allurements, inducements, wiles, seductions, munificence, toadying, flatteries, temptations, potentates, enticements, wheedling, suppliant, suasion, popinjay, gulling, persuasion, protestations, acquiescence, expedients, hectoring, simpering, paymasters, pieties, obsequiousness, jingo, craven, servility, ingratiation, kowtow, admonitions, deceptions, claque, bluster, sycophants, bluffers, flatterer, charms, pretensions, gratifications, imprecations, exhortations, mendacity, sanctimony, flummery, machinations, mountebanks, venality, inanities, abstemiousness, grandiloquence, sophistries, pushiness, lackeys, pabulum, onslaughts, vicissitudes, encomia, humbug, whims, bromides, bombast, browbeating, ultimatums, overtures, prigs, lucre, frippery, rapacity, ploys, largesse, aristocracies, ministrations, sneers, dissembling, bootlicking, baksheesh, flunkies, enfeebling, depredations, pretenses, amour propre, perfidies, whoredom, soft soaping, nostrums, popularism, supplicant, platitudes, strictures, courtiers, shills, claptrap, politesse, sophisticates, fealty, rebuff, cosset, placation, sanctimoniousness, duplicity, reassurances, etiquette, assurances, couriers, emissaries, prestige, adventurism, functionaries, intrigues, persuasions, advisers, belligerence

ingratiation, insinuation