Thanks for your excellent invented meanings for blandishments. I loved them all, as I always do. But it's true.
Blandishments - in reality - are compliments which are intended to coax or persuade. Now that's a great word to add to our everyday communication.
As I said, it was tricky choosing from the entries, but I settled on realityjunkie as today's winner. Welcome back, realityjunkie! Here's the winner:
Blandishments are punishments that don't actually fit the crime.
"Emily should've been sent to bed without supper for hitting her little brother. Her mother took pity on her and gave her the blandishment of having a time out instead."
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A Blandishment is a fairly uninteresting or not relevant banishment. For example, some may be banished from drinking their broth because they neglected to lock their door.
Blandishments are unimportant accomplishments. For example, brushing your teeth for the 1,000th day in a row.
Blandishments are punishments that don't actually fit the crime.
"Emily should've been sent to bed without supper for hitting her little brother. Her mother took pity on her and gave her the blandishment of having a time out instead."
"Blandishments: Decorations used by scrapbookers; ornamental items placed around pictures in a scrapbook;"
"Missy's photo album was bland and uninteresting due to the lack of blandishments."
Blandishments - 1. a fancy, ornate word for accomplishment. 2. an accomplishment. 3. plural form of blindishment. 4. to blandish: "Ted was boasting on his blandishments, even though they were not very impressive."
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