adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a cajoling manner.
1814. Mad. D’Arblay, Wanderer, V. 147. If it were not for the sly rogue’s tickling one’s ears so cajolingly with the jingle of metre.
1839. Sydney Monitor, 21 June, 2/5. Poke his fingers playfully into the ribs of the checktaker, and cajolingly informing him, that he was ‘a devilish clever fellow.’
1853. Fraser’s Mag., XLVII. 672/2. ‘What man,’ asks another, cajolingly, ‘can ever doubt the sincerity of our protestations wishing him prosperity?’
