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 James William Sullivan
Don’t pretend it’s for my benefit, little wheedler!
From Dorothy on a House Boat by Evelyn Raymond
He gloried in "Magna Charta," and never knowingly sacrificed his baronial privileges, yet he was wax in the hands of a skillful wheedler, and his "adamantine will" was readily fused in the fires of flattery.
From Miriam Monfort A Novel by Catherine A. Warfield
Smith, wheedler of trout, landed us in quite an ambitious foamy surf at the foot of a declivity below our future host's farm.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 by Various
