wheedling

• Rueben hated the wheedling, defensive sound of his voice. —  Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March-April 2005
• Expeditors seem like their own culture of people - you spend hours upon hours with bureaucrats-wheedling, arguing, cajoling, but always being respectful of the line between appropriate and inappropriate behavior. —  Brownstoner
• Crane's wheedling, his inflated self-opinion (wildly in advance of any real achievement), his self-pity, his difficult relations with his mother and father, his plagiarism of Samuel Greenberg-surely these lie at an interesting angle to the art, even if, in the end, we have nothing but the art by which to judge the achievement. —  PoetryFoundation.org
• And he laughed harder than ever But Farmer Green paid little heed to Ferdinand Frog's wheedling, although he did smile and say I declare, I believe that bull frog's jeering at me because I missed the old crow V MR. FROG'S SECRET SORROW Ferdinand Frog always looked so cheerful that no one ever suspected that he had a secret sorrow. —  The Tale of Ferdinand Frog
• She stood ten minutes cajoling him, wheedling, coaxing, threatening. —  In the Mist of the Mountains

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