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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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"Wheedle" Quotes from Famous Books

... said this Percy assumed all the airs of a millionaire; but then it was well known about Bloomsbury that the Widow Carberry was very wealthy; also that her only hopeful could wheedle her in to settling any sort of a bill he chose to contract, so that the mention of the sum of five hundred dollars was not anything ...

— The Aeroplane Boys Flight - A Hydroplane Roundup • John Luther Langworthy

... tradition had it, a consummate skill in poker. He was the moneyed man among the sergeants when the dashing relict of a brother non-commissioned officer set her widow's cap for him and won. It did not take many years for her to wheedle most of his money away; but there was no cessation to the demand, no apparent limit to the supply. Both were growing older, and now it became evident that Mrs. Clancy was the elder of the two, and that the artificiality of her charms could not stand the test ...

— The Deserter • Charles King

... very much," she weakly asserted. "Ever so much. Besides, Alf,"—she began to appeal to him, in an attempt to wheedle—"Em's a real good sort.... You don't know half the ...

— Nocturne • Frank Swinnerton

... no longer wanted to keep his appointment. I suggested that it would be well to learn what the old sinner was aiming at. But, as I knew the abbe's weak character, and feared that my Uncle John would manage to win his heart by his lying confessions and wheedle him into some false step, I made up my mind to hide in a thicket whence I could see ...

— Mauprat • George Sand

... flesh and blood, and of English flesh and blood too. It may not always be willing to move, or to strike when moved. The Boroughmongers see that their titles and estates hang upon the army. They would fain coax the people back again to feelings of reverence and love. They would fain wheedle them into something that shall blunt their hostility. They have been trying Bible-schemes, school-schemes, and soup-schemes. And at last they are trying the Savings Banks scheme, upon which I shall ...

— Political Pamphlets • George Saintsbury

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