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wheedle
/ˈʍiː.dəl/
verb 2noun 1
Collocations
3ADJ.
telling
VERB + WHEEDLE
tried
PREP.
into
Definitions
verb
1
To cajole or attempt to persuade by flattery.
I’d like one of those, too, if you can wheedle him into telling you where he got it.
[…]whether, after preventing her from being the wife of Sir Walter, he may not be wheedled and caressed at last into making her the wife of Sir William.
2
To obtain by flattery, guile, or trickery.
If the worſt come to the worſt,—I'll turn my Wife to Graſs—I already have a deed of Settlement of the beſt part of her Eſtate; which I wheadl'd out of her; [...]
She tore off my cap, scratched, kicked, and buffetted me, till she had exhausted her strength, declaring, as she rested her arm, ‘that I had wheedled her husband from her.
noun
1
A coaxing person.
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Example Bank
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I’d like one of those, too, if you can wheedle him into telling you where he got it.
Wiktionary02
[…]whether, after preventing her from being the wife of Sir Walter, he may not be wheedled and caressed at last into making her the wife of Sir William.
Wiktionary03
“Brother Peter,” he said, in a wheedling yet gravely official tone, “It’s nothing but right I should speak to you about the Three Crofts and the Manganese. The Almighty knows what I’ve got on my mind—
Wiktionary04
I tried to wheedle him into telling me the answer.
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