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"You don't have to answer if you feel your answer might incriminate you," he said wheedlingly, but there were some names that had been publicly mentioned.

From Time Magazine Archive

She smiled at McShane and said wheedlingly, “Take Laurie bye-bye? Park? Park?”

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

Campbell clung to him in true land-shark fashion, plucking his arm and talking wheedlingly to him.

From The Door into Infinity by Hamilton, Edmond

Tell me," she drawled wheedlingly, "that's your beau, ain't it?

From Senator North by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

The boldest of them approached the dog, calling him by name and wheedlingly.

From Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire by White, Edward Lucas