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

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 Sullivan, James William

“You’re the greatest wheedler I ever saw,” she said.

From The Indifference of Juliet by Hutt, Henry

"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

Don’t pretend it’s for my benefit, little wheedler!

From Dorothy on a House Boat by Raymond, Evelyn