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  • noun Plural form of wheedler.

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Examples

  • Killer Joel on Software rant about how to write a tech resume -- though this could handily apply to any situation where you're trying to wheedle a favor out of someone alongside of many other wheedlers: sending a manuscript to a publisher, raising money from investors, or even trying to get someone to blog your project.

    Boing Boing: January 25, 2004 - January 31, 2004 Archives 2004

  • Still, a leading parliamentarian has criticized Ahmadinejad's "tribal management of affairs" with his sackings - among a number of protests by Iranian parliamentarians - and concluded, "Only the wheedlers will be left over," according to a translation by the

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • Still, a leading parliamentarian has criticized Ahmadinejad's "tribal management of affairs" with his sackings - among a number of protests by Iranian parliamentarians - and concluded, "Only the wheedlers will be left over," according to a translation by the

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • Still, a leading parliamentarian has criticized Ahmadinejad's "tribal management of affairs" with his sackings - among a number of protests by Iranian parliamentarians - and concluded, "Only the wheedlers will be left over," according to a translation by the

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • Still, a leading parliamentarian has criticized Ahmadinejad's "tribal management of affairs" with his sackings - among a number of protests by Iranian parliamentarians - and concluded, "Only the wheedlers will be left over," according to a translation by the

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • They were the one’s who scurried about the city, its messenger pigeons, brokers of pettiest transactions, grubbers and wheedlers and shysters.

    Interlude – Cafe Nekropolis « Unknowing 2010

  • She was minded of those boys, that circle of young manhood—cat’s-paws, panderers, fawners, wheedlers, henchmen, conjuror’s assistants—that had orbited, till his dying end, her father’s star.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • She was minded of those boys, that circle of young manhood—cat’s-paws, panderers, fawners, wheedlers, henchmen, conjuror’s assistants—that had orbited, till his dying end, her father’s star.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • "Ach, they're jist a lot o 'oily tongued wheedlers," was the reply, "an 'that wee ferrit-eyed yin is the worst o' them a '.

    The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner James C. Welsh

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