wheedling

Example Sentences

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Scientists had not yet discovered vitamins, so families did not fret about dietary “balance,” and there seems to have been little or none of the parental wheedling common today.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

“Part Two” shows Durst wheedling his friends to do his bidding from behind bars and expecting nothing less than absolute allegiance.

From Salon • Apr. 21, 2024

“You know a lot about bathroom law,” Ben purrs to Bea when they meet-cute wheedling a restroom key from a barista.

From New York Times • Dec. 21, 2023

Hunter Biden is such a stingy, wheedling, dishonest, self-serving dirtbag that even after the court-ordered paternity test proved the child was his, he refuses to acknowledge his own biological daughter.

From Washington Times • Apr. 27, 2023

She had a face like a dinner roll and blancmange-colored skin, and ruled by wheedling.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood