jawboning
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jawboning
- present participle and gerund of jawbone
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jawboning (usually uncountable, plural jawbonings)
- Persistent persuasive talk.
- 1991, Terrence E. Cook, The Great Alternatives of Social Thought, page 194:
- Or the merely verbal pressure of jawbonings by prominent people may try to silence a certain point of view.