wheedled

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Then, at his busiest, with a wife and three children impatiently waiting at home, he wheedled Mel Brooks for a cameo in “Young Frankenstein.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2025

Ask any nerd who wheedled her parents for a little more cash to buy books: What you get from Scholastic is what your parents are willing to buy you.

From Salon • Oct. 23, 2023

Equipped with two $4,000 trackers — which he’d wheedled a company into donating — Clerkin went out with a fishing captain who said he’d seen megamouths roaming.

From Washington Post • Oct. 11, 2021

Through frequent phone calls and golf games, Shinzo Abe had supposedly wheedled his way into one of the closest relationships with Trump of any world leader.

From Slate • Sep. 18, 2018

“Come on,” wheedled his father with a smile, “there must be something.”

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai