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

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

"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

Peachy, however, was a champion wheedler; she had a certain command over the Italian language, and could persuade Antonio, in his native tongue, of the absolute necessity of her demands.

From The Jolliest School of All by Brazil, Angela

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