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A small elite group of men and women are wheedling, cajoling, flattering and threatening in an effort to reach one another's minds.

From Time Magazine Archive

Most of them are wheedling pleas to be let out of prison, or the usual prisoner's complaint about the food or the class of person he is compelled to associate with.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their voices are wheedling and false; I can tell they don’t mean it, each one thinks her own lady on her own page is good.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

With them the bird in the hand is everything; icy when they have no need of a man, they are wheedling and inclined to be gracious when they can make him useful.

From Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau by Balzac, Honoré de