Usage examples (14)

• If chemists have identified substances that have fallen in Europe as sand from African deserts, swept up in African whirlwinds, that's assuasive to all the irritations...
• Perhaps, 'said Bounderby, staring with all his might at his so quiet and assuasive father-in-law,' you know where your daughter is at the present time! '
• In his new position John is apt "to go in shaller cracks all over," unless his feminine trainer has been judicious in the use of lubricants -- assuasive and dissuasive.
• Wounds were to be healed which required the assuasive hand of time, which were destined to rankle even in the bosoms of another generation, and the painful memory of...