wheedle
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A mosquito spots the eminent man and zooms over to wheedle in his ear, but Bashō remains immobile.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025
The arsonists wheedle their way into his house with a combination of servile pleading, subtle bullying and appeals to Biedermann’s moral vanity.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 14, 2022
To do so, he said, “I’ve had to shove, push, cajole, persuade, wheedle, exaggerate, manipulate, flatter, be obnoxious, occasionally lie, and always sell.”
From Washington Post • Nov. 21, 2022
The more other people sit stone-faced, the more I turn into a clown, trying to wheedle just little bit of encouraging energy back from them.
From Slate • Feb. 26, 2022
She could send him to the refrigerator, which was decorated with the blank couple on the bicycle built for two—or, as now, she could wheedle, “Tell me a story, Billy boy.”
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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