wheedle
verb (used with object)
to endeavor to influence (a person) by smooth, flattering, or beguiling words or acts.
had wheedled
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past perfectof wheedle.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Parker, meanwhile, had wheedled $50,000 from investors, and the pair moved to California.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 24, 2013
These he said he had wheedled from the Sultan of Java.
From Time Magazine Archive
“You know how it is,” Doc Daneeka had wheedled, with a sly, conspiratorial wink.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
His skin became alive again, and remembered the few responding kisses that he had wheedled from her, contacts so shy that they might have been the poisings of a moth.
From The Judge by Rebecca West
Mr. Stamps had wheedled or forced his way into the great man’s apartment and had persisted in remaining to press his claim until he was figuratively turned out by the shoulders.
From In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim by Frances Hodgson Burnett
