Bribe vs Cajole - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between bribe and cajole

is that bribe is to give a bribe to while cajole is to persuade someone to do something which they are reluctant to do, especially by flattery or promises; to coax.

As a noun bribe

is something (usually money) given in exchange for influence or as an inducement to dishonesty.

bribe

English

Noun

(en noun)

Something (usually money) given in exchange for influence or as an inducement to dishonesty.

* Hobart

Undue reward for anything against justice is a bribe .

That which seduces; seduction; allurement.

* Akenside

Not the bribes of sordid wealth can seduce to leave these everblooming sweets.

Synonyms

* See also

Verb

(brib)

To give a to.

* F. W. Robertson

Neither is he worthy who bribes a man to vote against his conscience.

To gain by a bribe; to induce as by a bribe.

to bribe somebody's compliance

cajole

English

Verb

(transitive, and, intransitive) To persuade someone to do something which they are reluctant to do, especially by flattery or promises; to coax.

* 1722 , , Moll Flanders , ch. 12:

Then he cajoled with his brother, and persuaded him what service he had done him.

* 1820 , , The Abbot , ch. 27:

If you are cajoled by the cunning arguments of a trumpeter of heresy, or the praises of a puritanic old woman, is not that womanish?

* 1894 , , Only An Irish Boy , ch. 19:

He had tried bullying, and without success. He would try cajoling and temptation.

* 1898 , , The Battle Of The Strong , ch. 37:

[W]ith eloquent arts he had cajoled a young girl into a secret marriage.

* 1917 , , King Coal , ch. 8:

Schulman, general manager of the "G. F. C.," had been sending out messengers to hunt for him, and finally had got him in his office, arguing and pleading, cajoling and denouncing him by turns.

* 2010 August 4, Michael Scherer, " NonSTARTer? Obama's Troubled Nuclear Treaty," Time :

For weeks, the White House, the Pentagon and Senate Democrats have been working overtime to cajole , convince and placate Republicans.

Synonyms

* entice, inveigle, wheedle