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- noun Plural form of
wheedler .
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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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They were the one’s who scurried about the city, its messenger pigeons, brokers of pettiest transactions, grubbers and wheedlers and shysters.
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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
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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
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"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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