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Noun
Menu: soda bread with Irish whiskey butter and fried cabbage and rashers; pork bangers and Irish colcannon with red onion gravy and blarney stones and Irish bananas. Gege Reed, The Courier-Journal, 9 Mar. 2022 The blarney is still strong here (lapsing into Irish dialect is an occupational hazard of reading him), but these characters also act. Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2022 Around the Cedars campus and among the Ross neighbors, Mulligan was known for his blarney, with a joke and a laugh for everyone. Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Nov. 2021 The result feels like a film filtered less through real life than the rosy lens of sentiment and memory: a soft-focus Irish fairy tale bathed in love and blarney and a whole lot of warbling Van Morrison. Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 4 Sep. 2021 See all Example Sentences for blarney 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blarney
Noun
  • Instructions Step 1 To a large skillet over medium-high heat, add 4 tablespoons of the butter and the oil.
    James Beard, Saveur, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Remove from heat, and stir in cold butter and vanilla extract.
    Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 22 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The word had seemed like nonsense only a moment before.
    Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Having a terrible job where empty, pandering nonsense is handed down by corporate headquarters.
    Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 16 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Luke Richardson tried in vain to coax that tenacity out of him in the NHL, often pairing him with hardscrabble players to encourage a tougher mindset.
    Mark Lazerus, The Athletic, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Rosie, a feral cat his wife adopted and slowly coaxed into trusting her, was skittish and unfriendly, and rarely interacted with Mr. Escott.
    Kellen Browning, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Those harmonies — simultaneously honeyed and gravelly, providing just enough support without overshadowing, yet so powerful and full of potential — echoes Whitten.
    Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2024
  • Enjoy flavored nuts, such as those that are candied, glazed, or honied, in moderation.
    Selene Yeager, Health, 24 Feb. 2024
Noun
  • There is a subtle line between flattery and being creepy.
    Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and the best and most admiring of these Mann-handlers is, by a huge margin, 2018’s Den of Thieves.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 10 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The property also grows its own herbs, greens, nuts, berries, and edible flowers.
    Bianca Salonga, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Focus on whole foods like fruits, leafy green vegetables, fatty fish, nuts, and seeds.
    Lindsay Curtis, Health, 5 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Seroka also praised longshore laborers for taking on the high volumes of business, along with the other stakeholders in attendance including terminal operators and shipping lines and members of the San Pedro Bay community.
    Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 27 Jan. 2025
  • On Reddit, users have praised the platform for its superior code-generation capabilities and its open-source ethos.
    Joel Thayer, Newsweek, 27 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Boucher was on the hunt for Abba-Zaba, a chewy taffy bar with a real peanut butter center.
    Jessica Ma, Sacramento Bee, 20 July 2024
  • The texture ranges in consistency from an oil-like substance to a syrupy sap or even a sticky taffy.
    Jalen Williams, Detroit Free Press, 9 July 2024

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“Blarney.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blarney. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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