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  • adverb In a wheedling manner.

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wheedling +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • An exchange of cradle-babes, and the base-born slave may wear the purple imperially, and the royal infant begs an alms as wheedlingly or cringe to the lash as abjectly as his meanest subject.

    CHAPTER 20 2010

  • I imagine hearing this whispered wheedlingly in one's ear on a crowded train; when you look round there's no one there.

    When familiarity breeds contempt 2011

  • Lou's chilling MO is summed up by his visit to a troubled young guy in a police cell, a young man who has guessed Lou's awful secret and wheedlingly asks if the victim "had it coming".

    The Killer Inside Me 2010

  • "Hello, daughter of Adam," the Recap said, wheedlingly, looking up at her with an entreating gaze.

    Phoenix And Ashes Lackey, Mercedes 2004

  • 'Look,' he said wheedlingly, as if begging for forgiveness, 'they didn't give you a chance.

    Shattered Francis, Dick 2000

  • He put a hand over hers and added wheedlingly: "Darling Chrissy!"

    Not Once But Twice Neels, Betty 1981

  • After a few seconds of silence the voice said wheedlingly,.

    The Rolling Stones Heinlein, Robert A. 1952

  • Then he said suddenly, 'No a _kirk_, Minister,' and further ventured wheedlingly, ''tis impossible, but somethin' _for_ the kirk -- a new pulpit, for instance, or a bit organ, or some heating for the winter. '

    Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease

  • "Because you always help me out of a tight place," she said wheedlingly.

    Eve to the Rescue Ethel Hueston 1933

  • She smiled at them wheedlingly, but Boyd reassured her.

    The Silver Horde Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

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