Verb (used with object) : We wheedled him incessantly, but he would not consent. ,She wheedled him into going with her. ,I wheedled a new car out of my father. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : I always wheedle if I really need something. From Dictionary.com.
Noticing this, I have played the wheedler a bit; but now, look! the prop is deceiving the vine!. From Wordnik.com. [The Wasps] Reference
His eyes are dead, while her barely suppressed desperation makes her look like a horse wheedler. From Wordnik.com. [A Grownup Look at Lennon as a 'Boy'] Reference
"Tell me a story, dear Tattah," said this born wheedler, patting my face with his little black paw. From Wordnik.com. [At Home with the Jardines] Reference
Smith, wheedler of trout, landed us in quite an ambitious foamy surf at the foot of a declivity below our future host's farm. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862] Reference
And, as he admitted it, his ears rang again with the plaints of his stranded fellow-countryman, a wheedler from the South Country, off whose tongue the familiar brogue had dripped like honey. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Felix] Reference
"You're the greatest wheedler I ever saw," she said. From Wordnik.com. [The Indifference of Juliet] Reference
"How well you play, dear!" said Natalie, the wheedler. From Wordnik.com. [Two on the Trail A Story of the Far Northwest] Reference
He had the face of a girl and was considered a "wheedler.". From Wordnik.com. [Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 2] Reference
"Still Rock and Roll" has two voices: the wheedled and the wheedler. From Wordnik.com. [Dartblog] Reference
‘play-actress,’ a wheedler who could twist me round her little finger. From Wordnik.com. [The Captive] Reference
She struggled against him and stuttered: 'I tell you no! You are a wheedler. From Wordnik.com. [La faute de l'Abbe Mouret] Reference
"What a young wheedler you are!" observed he, playfully rumpling up his son's fair hair. From Wordnik.com. [Ted and the Telephone] Reference
McFly, the craven wheedler who is always trying to appease Biff the bully in the 1985 film classic, "Back to the Future.". From Wordnik.com. [chicagotribune.com - News] Reference
Becky was an excellent singer and dancer, a capital talker and wheedler, and a most attractive, but unprincipled, selfish, and unscrupulous woman. From Wordnik.com. [Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3] Reference
"A born wheedler," the colonel called her; but his wife thought "saucy minx" a more appropriate term, and wondered how Major Merryon could put up with her shameless trifling. From Wordnik.com. [The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories] Reference
Warble brought were the very widest she could wheedle from the head pie-cutter -- and Warble was some wheedler, especially when she coaxed prettily for a big pieth of cuthtard. From Wordnik.com. [Ptomaine Street] Reference
"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 Wordnik.com. [The Outcry] Reference
Peachy, however, was a champion wheedler; she had a certain command over the Italian language, and could persuade Antonio, in his native tongue, of the absolute necessity of her demands. From Wordnik.com. [The Jolliest School of All] Reference
"If I were to employ a wheedler," said Mr. Traquair, "I'd have no choice. From Wordnik.com. [The Spread Eagle and Other Stories] Reference
I felt that it would be useless to explain all this, and indeed a little while earlier I had lied by implication in not answering when M. de Guermantes said to me: “You don’t know our old wheedler?”. From Wordnik.com. [The Guermantes Way] Reference
He was “a wheedler, a sneak.”. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Bovary] Reference
I don't know how you do it, but you are a born wheedler. ". From Wordnik.com. [Little Women] Reference
He was "a wheedler, a sneak.". From Wordnik.com. [Madame Bovary] Reference
You're our champion wheedler. From Wordnik.com. [The Jolliest School of All] Reference
Obliquely on the little wheedler thrown. From Wordnik.com. [A Pindarick Ode on Painting Addressed to Joshua Reynolds, Esq.] Reference
Here was a wheedler trying to get round them. From Wordnik.com. [L'Assommoir] Reference
MADAME JOURDAIN: (Aside) He's a real wheedler!. From Wordnik.com. [Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme] Reference
"You outrageous wheedler!. From Wordnik.com. [One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford] Reference
You're our champion wheedler. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Jolliest School of All] Reference
"Ha! yes," cried she; "he is a bold wheedler.". From Wordnik.com. [Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life] Reference
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