Example Sentences

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He is a charmer, a wheedler, a flatterer and an occasional bully.

From The Guardian • Aug. 10, 2019

"The person he most listens to just now—and in fact at any time, as you must have seen for yourself—is that arch-tormentor, or at least beautiful wheedler, his elder daughter."

From The Outcry by James, Henry

"How well you play, dear!" said Natalie, the wheedler.

From Two on the Trail A Story of the Far Northwest by Potts, William Sherman

Here was a wheedler trying to get round them.

From L'Assommoir by Zola, Émile

“You’re the greatest wheedler I ever saw,” she said.

From The Indifference of Juliet by Hutt, Henry