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
Here was a wheedler trying to get round them.
From L'Assommoir by Zola, Émile
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
If I were to employ a wheedler," said Mr. Traquair, "I'd have no choice 'twixt you and Satan.
From The Spread Eagle and Other Stories by Morris, Gouverneur
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 Warfield, Catherine A.
