wheedler

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

He is a charmer, a wheedler, a flatterer and an occasional bully.

From The Guardian • Aug. 10, 2019

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 Richardson, Henry Handel

Here was a wheedler trying to get round them.

From L'Assommoir by Zola, Émile

"Yes, but then he would lie at the feet of Fraulein Dieskau or Osterhausen--the old wheedler!"

From The Countess Cosel A Romance of History of the Times of Augustus the Strong by Kraszewski, Jo?zef Ignacy

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