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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They talked of her idyllic life on a blue-grass stock-farm—when she was wheedling from her father a winter in Washington.
From Southern Lights and Shadows by William Dean Howells
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
And he was wheedling in his ways to him, as if Ralph were now become one who might do him great good if so his will were.
From The Well at the World's End: a tale by William Morris
A rickshaw coolie was wheedling him at his elbow but he paid no attention.
From Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China by Gayle Porter Hoskins
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
