- present participle of wheedle.
wheedling
Example Sentences
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Wheedling and wooing over sushi and Starbucks coffee, he made every college president, legislative leader and governor who supported him feel like a visionary, even as he outlasted, and out-earned, all of them.
From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2016
Wheedling and mugging, he invites the other characters, and the audience, to laugh at and underestimate him.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 19, 2012
Wheedling, bullying, negotiating, persuading, he took charge of the process that led to the Dayton Accords signed in 1995.
From Time • Dec. 14, 2010
Wheedling a drawing out of Willem de Kooning, the dean of abstract expressionists, he laboriously erased it, and then boldly displayed it under the label Erased De Kooning Drawing, Robert Rauschenberg 1953.
From Time Magazine Archive
Wheedling had no more effect than scolding, for with one hug of each other’s necks, the children scampered onward, leaving their spoils behind them.
From Jessica, the Heiress by Raymond, Evelyn
