wheedle
IPA: hwˈidʌɫ
noun
- (archaic) A coaxing person.
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To cajole or attempt to persuade by flattery.
- (transitive) To obtain by flattery, guile, or trickery.
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Examples of "wheedle" in Sentences
- If not, how did Action Canada wheedle their way in to this otherwise good group of charities?
- A quick phone call to Robert ensured she would be well guarded, and Brystion managed to wheedle our way out of too many questions.
- Their favorite words are words that can said with a sneer, but they enjoy words that bark, growl, whine, wheedle, and spit with rage too.
- He hopes to wheedle enough support from the national and prefecture governments to show progress rebuilding before leading citizens move away.
- She will connive and she will lie and she will wheedle her way in as far as she can wheedle, further than you can imagine, until — — oh, I don't know — — she has the password to your SL account.
- In puzzle mode that initially just means activating them slowly enough not to cause collisions, but later levels demand deeper experimentation with order and timing before you wheedle out a viable solution.
- Ms. LENHART: We heard from teens who said, you know, when I want the yes, I'll go to the phone because my parents can hear my voice and I can kind of wheedle and I can charm them, and that's how I'm going to get what I want.
- He, who was sheer bladed steel in the imperious flashing of his will, could swashbuckle and bully like any over-seas roisterer, or wheedle as wickedly winningly as the first woman out of Eden or the last woman of that descent.
- In both cases, what is going on is a display of pinstriped muscle – an attempt to wheedle, lobby and finally intimidate government from making whatever decisions it feels are necessary in the national rather than sectional interest.
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