wheedler

Example Sentences

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

From The Guardian • Aug. 10, 2019

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 Australia Felix by Richardson, Henry Handel

"Ha! yes," cried she; "he is a bold wheedler."

From Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life by Flaubert, Gustave

Don’t pretend it’s for my benefit, little wheedler!

From Dorothy on a House Boat by Raymond, Evelyn

"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