Charm, flatter, or persuade (someone) in an insincere or deceitful way.
he sloothered him up and dosed him with brandy
the sloothering matchmaker
Example sentencesExamples
- If you, as our elected Government, slip, slide, and sloother your way into supporting it, you are not acting in our name!
- She was hard-set not to go over to him and begin sloothering him.
- He played the rogue with fine sloothering tones.
- He used to amuse me the things he said with the half sloothering smile of his.
- He had been intrigued by the sloothering sales letter I'd written.