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

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 The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 by Various

"Tell me a story, dear Tattah," said this born wheedler, patting my face with his little black paw.

From At Home with the Jardines by Bell, Lilian

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 The Jolliest School of All by Brazil, Angela