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

"How well you play, dear!" said Natalie, the wheedler.

From Two on the Trail A Story of the Far Northwest by Potts, William Sherman

"Yes, but then he would lie at the feet of Fraulein Dieskau or Osterhausen--the old wheedler!"

From The Countess Cosel A Romance of History of the Times of Augustus the Strong by Kraszewski, Jo?zef Ignacy

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 Richardson, Henry Handel

"Ha! yes," cried she; "he is a bold wheedler."

From Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life by Flaubert, Gustave