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

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

The wedges Warble brought were the very widest she could wheedle from the head pie-cutter—and Warble was some wheedler, especially when she coaxed prettily for a big pieth of cuthtard.

From Ptomaine Street by Wells, Carolyn

"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

"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