wheedle
verb (used with object)
to endeavor to influence (a person) by smooth, flattering, or beguiling words or acts.
was wheedling
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past progressiveof wheedle.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The next time I differed with my friends was when king James was wheedling the dissenters to take off the penal laws and test, which I could by no means come into.
From An Appeal to Honour and Justice, Though It Be of His Worst Enemies. Being A True Account of His Conduct in Public Affairs. by Daniel Defoe
The only time I ever saw him pleasant was when he was wheedling mother out of her money before she bought the house.
From Janice Day the Young Homemaker by Helen Beecher Long
The tone was wheedling, and the elder woman loved to hear it.
From The Man by Bram Stoker
But perhaps the thing that gave her the keenest pleasure was wheedling out of Mr. Crotchets his bungalow that stood on the slopes beyond the golf-links for a honeymoon.
From Leerie by Ruth Sawyer
He was wheedling and threatening by turns; he did everything he had ever done before, and more.
From Ashton-Kirk, Criminologist by John T. McIntyre
