WHEEDLE


Meaning of WHEEDLE in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

way

In such ways the devil wheedles his way into human relationships with highly damaging effects.

Perversely, Tess adores this faintly sinister patriarch, and hopes to wheedle her way into his affections.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

He likes me to wheedle , the brute.

I am going to see an operation if I can wheedle anybody into letting me.

In contrast, his manner is ingratiating, even wheedling.

In such ways the devil wheedles his way into human relationships with highly damaging effects.

Supposing she let them down after dear Franz Busacher had connived and wheedled to make her acceptable to Gesner?

The adverts scold us and cajole us and wheedle us and fawn us to keep up with the Joneses.

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