wheedle

Ask any nerd who wheedled her parents for a little more cash to buy books: What you get from Scholastic is what your parents are willing to buy you.

He wheedled money from the city for more cops, more police stations, more equipment, and he made nice with community organizations.

Then he had the woman hand her phone to a visiting technician and wheedled the phone number of the department head out him.

The arsonists wheedle their way into his house with a combination of servile pleading, subtle bullying and appeals to Biedermann’s moral vanity.

To do so, he said, “I’ve had to shove, push, cajole, persuade, wheedle, exaggerate, manipulate, flatter, be obnoxious, occasionally lie, and always sell.”