Today’s “Word of the Day” is “blandishment” and it is a noun meaning “honeyed words, smooth talk, soft soap, butter, pleasing statement, overpraise, flattery”.
Example Sentence: India made it clear that it was unwilling to join in any United States-led “containment” of China; its traditional obsession with preserving its “strategic autonomy” after two centuries of colonial rule made it wary of the blandishments of the West.
This word is present in The Hindu article Hardly the India-China century Deng envisioned and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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