wheedle
verb (used with object)
to endeavor to influence (a person) by smooth, flattering, or beguiling words or acts.
have wheedled
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present perfectof wheedle.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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I see by your dancing eyes that you have wheedled old Mitchell into allowing you to do a foolish thing.”
From Chasing an Iron Horse Or, A Boy's Adventures in the Civil War by Edward Robins
He liked Stephen very much, and Dolly could almost have wheedled the moon out of him if she had tried.
From A Little Girl in Old New York by Amanda Minnie Douglas
You may have wheedled my poor uncle to make the will in your favour; if so, depend upon it, I shall expect nothing from your hands.
From Olla Podrida by Frederick Marryat
And the letter to Charles Jenkinson of 20 June 1777 and to Dr. Dodd of 26 June were of the sort that an enterprising lady might well have wheedled copies from the Doctor.
From An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Taste, and of the Origin of our Ideas of Beauty, etc. by James L. Clifford
If he had not been so simple-minded he could have wheedled any amount of money out of her.
From South Wind by Norman Douglas
