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
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
“You’re the greatest wheedler I ever saw,” she said.
From The Indifference of Juliet by Henry Hutt
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
It forms as well the opportunity for the demagogue of to-day—for him who as suppliant for votes is a wheedler and as politician and lawgiver a trickster.
From Direct Legislation by the Citizenship through the Initiative and Referendum by James William Sullivan
