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

“You’re the greatest wheedler I ever saw,” she said.

From The Indifference of Juliet by Hutt, Henry

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

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.