wheedle
verb (used with object)
to endeavor to influence (a person) by smooth, flattering, or beguiling words or acts.
has wheedled
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present perfectof wheedle (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Decent, humane places for the terminally ill could have been provided decades ago with some of the millions the Cancer Foundation has wheedled out of a considerable number of desperate relatives of these martyrs.
From Time Magazine Archive
He has wheedled a better deal out of foreign concessionaires who export Liberia's iron ore and rubber, increasing the revenues to his treasury by some $5,000,000 a year.
From Time Magazine Archive
Carmen has wheedled the surgeon of the presidio to such good purpose that she has managed to get her rom out of prison.
From Carmen by Lady Mary Sophia (Hely-Hutchinson) Loyd
We are here told by what acts Abimelech got into the saddle.—None would have dreamed of making such a fellow as he king.—See how he has wheedled them into the choice.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Isaac Disraeli
I suppose he's some Wall Street chum that Glure has wheedled into giving a Specialty.
From Lad: A Dog by Albert Payson Terhune
