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
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
When your landline and cell phone were free from scam artists selling something, threatening you with arrest, wheedling to extract a credit-card number?
From Washington Times • Sep. 4, 2019
“This isn’t one of your tea parties! Do you want me to feed him cookies? Poor Mellower,” he said in a wheedling tone.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
