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Wheedle v. t. (past & past part. wheedled; pres. part. wheedling)

To entice by soft words; to cajole; to flatter; to coax. "The unlucky art of wheedling fools." "And wheedle a world that loves him not."

To grain, or get away, by flattery. "A deed of settlement of the best part of her estate, which I wheedled out of her."

Wheedle v. i. To flatter; to coax; to cajole.

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"Wheedling" Quotes from Famous Books

... come within sight Of the town. On the outskirts 80 The merchants are cheating And wheedling the peasants, There's shouting and ...

— Who Can Be Happy And Free In Russia? • Nicholas Nekrassov

... wheedling brought no answer, he made the forest ring with threats of what he would do to her when he caught her unless she came to him ...

— Man Size • William MacLeod Raine

... wrathful, and indicated by a toss of the head that the wheedling of a woman did not make up for a blow. It was the insult more than the pain; and from her—there was the ...

— In the Midst of Alarms • Robert Barr

... thing is Father. He is peaceable as a lamb. She is not to teach, but to spend the winter sewing on her clothes and bedding, and Father told her he would give her the necessary money. She said so. And I suspect he will. He always favoured her because she was so pretty, and she can come closer to wheedling him than any of the rest of us excepting ...

— A Daughter of the Land • Gene Stratton-Porter

... creatures which can take the hue of the tree on which they rest, so that for a long time we do not perceive them. They sit beside us by hundreds when we fancy we are alone; and change their colors and their wheedling tones to suit our inclinations, while they pour into our ears deceitful whisperings that the world is all wrong, and we are all right,—the vile flatterers! They paint all our surroundings with dark colors, make all our pictures Mater Dolorosas or St. Sebastians, turn all our ...

— Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! • Annie H. Ryder

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