verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
way
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In such ways the devil wheedles his way into human relationships with highly damaging effects.
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Perversely, Tess adores this faintly sinister patriarch, and hopes to wheedle her way into his affections.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He likes me to wheedle , the brute.
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I am going to see an operation if I can wheedle anybody into letting me.
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In contrast, his manner is ingratiating, even wheedling.
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In such ways the devil wheedles his way into human relationships with highly damaging effects.
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Supposing she let them down after dear Franz Busacher had connived and wheedled to make her acceptable to Gesner?
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The adverts scold us and cajole us and wheedle us and fawn us to keep up with the Joneses.