Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or art of coaxing, cajoling, or deluding by flattery.
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- verb Present participle of
wheedle .
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- noun the act of urging by means of teasing or flattery
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Examples
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"If you have a good plan, if you can prove that it will work, what is the necessity for 'wheedling' anybody?
A Daughter of the Land Gene Stratton-Porter 1893
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But it's not just that Friedman is a little late to this realization, it's his tone of neo-Victorian moral condescension, that wheedling, whining schoolmarm-on-a-laptop tone of his that drives me beserko.
Robert Teitelman: Thomas Friedman Discovers Reinvention Again Robert Teitelman 2011
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And Barratt successfully shows that under the mayor's wheedling sycophancy lurks a monster who dispatches his enemies to a torture chamber with an ominously naked bulb.
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Isabella tried a softer approach, wheedling like a turkey whisperer.
At Hidden Falls Barbara Freethy 2011
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Finally, after some wheedling, she consented to a shish taouk sandwich.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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But it's not just that Friedman is a little late to this realization, it's his tone of neo-Victorian moral condescension, that wheedling, whining schoolmarm-on-a-laptop tone of his that drives me beserko.
Robert Teitelman: Thomas Friedman Discovers Reinvention Again Robert Teitelman 2011
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And they enslaved you over again — but not frankly, as the true, noble men would do with weight of their own right arms, but secretly, by spidery machinations and by wheedling and cajolery and lies.
Chapter 38 2010
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I tried to study her face for some trace of the winning girl I'd known, but there was nothing left in either her drained appearance or her wheedling manner.
Intervals David Ackley 2011
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On any one else, this might be “wheedling.” datingjesus
They’re voting on marriage equality in Maine « Dating Jesus 2009
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The guttural voice became desperate and wheedling.
Brush of Darkness Allison Pang 2011
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