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He is a charmer, a wheedler, a flatterer and an occasional bully.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 10, 2019

The wedges Warble brought were the very widest she could wheedle from the head pie-cutter—and Warble was some wheedler, especially when she coaxed prettily for a big pieth of cuthtard.

From Ptomaine Street by Carolyn Wells

And, as he admitted it, his ears rang again with the plaints of his stranded fellow-countryman, a wheedler from the South Country, off whose tongue the familiar brogue had dripped like honey.

From Australia Felix by Henry Handel Richardson

Here was a wheedler trying to get round them.

From L'Assommoir by Émile Zola

"Tell me a story, dear Tattah," said this born wheedler, patting my face with his little black paw.

From At Home with the Jardines by Lilian Bell




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