- present participle of wheedle.
wheedling
Example Sentences
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Scientists had not yet discovered vitamins, so families did not fret about dietary “balance,” and there seems to have been little or none of the parental wheedling common today.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
“Part Two” shows Durst wheedling his friends to do his bidding from behind bars and expecting nothing less than absolute allegiance.
From Salon ● Apr. 21, 2024
“You know a lot about bathroom law,” Ben purrs to Bea when they meet-cute wheedling a restroom key from a barista.
From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2023
Finally, bravo to Seattle Opera’s indispensable Jonathan Dean, who translates and writes the supertitles projected above the stage, for having one of the wheedling stepsisters calling her prey “Princykins.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 21, 2019
Their voices are wheedling and false; I can tell they don’t mean it, each one thinks her own lady on her own page is good.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
