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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

... continued the wheedling and designing Mr. Leary, "that as soon as we reach the station house I can make satisfactory atonement to you for my behaviour just now and can explain everything to your superiors in charge ...

— The Life of the Party • Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb

... hearth-rug. But he did not sleep. He would watch the wings of flame gilding the dark throat of the chimney, and his mind seemed drawn upward on that rush of light, up into the pure chill air where the moon was riding among sluggish thick floes of cloud. In the darkness he heard chiming voices, wheedling and tantalizing. One night he was walking on his little verandah. Between rafts of silver-edged clouds were channels of ocean-blue sky, inconceivably deep and transparent. The air was serene, with a faint ...

— Where the Blue Begins • Christopher Morley

... were walking slowly toward the stable. "Bless me!" cried Madge, "where am I going with no better protection than a sunshade? I'm always a little off when a horse like that is at hand. I say, Graydon," she added, in a wheedling tone, "mount and put him through his paces. I can't resist the fun, no matter what ...

— A Young Girl's Wooing • E. P. Roe

... at twelve, will you, ma?" called Jerry, in his most wheedling voice. His mother only laughed, but Jerry felt sure she would. Besides, there was his dollar ...

— The Boy Scouts of the Air on Lost Island • Gordon Stuart

... facts. But when we remember that not a word is said throughout the volume of Jasper's antecedents, who he was, and where he came from; when we remember that but for his nephew he was a lonely man; when we see that he was both criminal and artist; when we observe his own wheedling propensity, his false and fulsome protestations of affection, his slyness, his subtlety, his heartlessness, his tenacity; and when, above all, we know that the opium vice is HEREDITARY, and that a YOUNG man would not be addicted to it unless born with the craving; {5} then, ...

— The Puzzle of Dickens's Last Plot • Andrew Lang

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