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
He gloried in "Magna Charta," and never knowingly sacrificed his baronial privileges, yet he was wax in the hands of a skillful wheedler, and his "adamantine will" was readily fused in the fires of flattery.
From Miriam Monfort A Novel by Catherine A. Warfield
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 Angela Brazil
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 Henry Handel Richardson
"Ha! yes," cried she; "he is a bold wheedler."
From Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life by Gustave Flaubert
