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Wheedling   Listen
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Wheedle  v. t.  (past & past part. wheedled; pres. part. wheedling)  
1.
To entice by soft words; to cajole; to flatter; to coax. "The unlucky art of wheedling fools." "And wheedle a world that loves him not."
2.
To grain, or get away, by flattery. "A deed of settlement of the best part of her estate, which I wheedled out of her."


Wheedle  v. i.  To flatter; to coax; to cajole.





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"Wheedling" Quotes from Famous Books



... once a Brahman who had two wives; like many Brahmans he lived by begging and was very clever at wheedling money out of people. One day the fancy took him to go to the market place dressed only in a small loin cloth such as the poorest labourers wear and see how people treated him. So he set out but on the road and in the market place and in the village no one salaamed to him or made ...
— Folklore of the Santal Parganas • Cecil Henry Bompas
... smiled warmly, and when he spoke his voice was almost wheedling. "Listen, Alan, we've been planning this thing for months. I put down seven thousand to clear your brother, just so I'd be sure of getting your cooperation. I tell you there's no danger. I didn't mean to threaten you—but ...
— Starman's Quest • Robert Silverberg
... left their delicious dinner, and got around her, coaxing and wheedling exactly as if she had already declined, when the truth was she was too dazed with joy to open her lips, even if they had given her ...
— Cloudy Jewel • Grace Livingston Hill
... the cousin," she said, wheedling. "Gemma thinks she will be ugly, with great teeth and a red face like the Englishwomen in the Asino, but ...
— Olive in Italy • Moray Dalton
... that before long they'll come wheedling about in the hope that I'll let up on them or be a little easier ...
— The Great God Success • John Graham (David Graham Phillips)


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