wheedler

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These inventors and wheedlers, dreamers and hucksters, were making the all-powerful software apps of their day: popular songs, sold then as widely distributed sheet music and phonograph records.

From The Guardian • Jun. 13, 2012

But I enter most often the habitation of the orchids, my little wheedlers, by preference.

From The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 4 by Maupassant, Guy de

Ach, they're jist a lot o' oily tongued wheedlers," was the reply, "an' that wee ferrit-eyed yin is the worst o' them a'.

From The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner by Welsh, James C.