wheedle
Example Sentences
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That should shut down whoever is trying to wheedle you into gimmicky strategies, or chasing the returns of recently hot assets.
But the brook always whines and wheedles: “Don’t go, Ida B, don’t go. Nobody’s callin’ and they can wait, anyway.
From Literature
A mosquito spots the eminent man and zooms over to wheedle in his ear, but Bashō remains immobile.
He’s always looking to learn something, whether it’s from someone or just the cracks in their armor or the information he can wheedle out of somebody.
From Los Angeles Times
Then, at his busiest, with a wife and three children impatiently waiting at home, he wheedled Mel Brooks for a cameo in “Young Frankenstein.”
From Los Angeles Times
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