coaxing, wheedling, browbeating, prodding, hectoring, goading, schmoozing, groveling, haranguing, badgering, berating, pestering, chivvy, coercing, wooing, persuading, finessing, nudging, scolding, bluster, haggling, seducing, placating, kibitzing, needling, coddling, blackmailing, buttering, humoring, chiding, geeing, eager beaver, dickering, conniving, jawboning, sulking, wearies, pouting, appeasing, inveigle, admonishing, egging, gesticulating, glowering, scheming, sidling, peanut gallery, giggling, jabbering, temporizing, playacting, relented, wavering, doting, preening, politicking, slapping, dissuade, patting, chastising, emoting, pacifying, finagling, mollifying, shuttle diplomacy, teasing, outwitting, parleying, equivocating, intimidating, domineering, strategizing, whispering, curtseying, consoling, huddles, disarming, bantering, bellowing, scowls, harrumphing, dragooned, lecturing, fawning, plod, imploring, nattering, calming, ingratiating, yapping, pep talk, yakking, shoving, chiselling, motivating, obfuscating, refrains, herding, befriending, hawing, babble, outfoxing, bullying, joking, probing, ridicule, flirting, harassment, nagging, questioning, arguing, discomfort, doubting, encouragement, flak, hazing, jamming, stumbling, aggravation

cajolingly, coaxingly