wheedled

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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.

From Salon • Oct. 23, 2023

Equipped with two $4,000 trackers — which he’d wheedled a company into donating — Clerkin went out with a fishing captain who said he’d seen megamouths roaming.

From Washington Post • Oct. 11, 2021

In 1855, Davis wheedled about $20,000 out of Congress, enough for a trip to the Mideast to buy 30-some camels and dromedaries and hire “cameleers.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 20, 2021

Through frequent phone calls and golf games, Shinzo Abe had supposedly wheedled his way into one of the closest relationships with Trump of any world leader.

From Slate • Sep. 18, 2018

“You know how it is,” Doc Daneeka had wheedled, with a sly, conspiratorial wink.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller