wheedles

Verb

wheedle (third-person singular simple present wheedles, present participle wheedling, simple past and past participle wheedled)

1. (ambitransitive) To cajole or attempt to persuade by flattery.
   • I’d like one of those, too, if you can wheedle him into telling you where he got it.

   Synonyms:

   butter up, inveigle, sweet-talk, blandander, blandish, cajole, sweeten, fast-talk, canoodle, carny

2. (transitive) To obtain by flattery, guile, or trickery.
   • If the worſt come to the worſt,—I'll turn my Wife to Graſs—I already have a deed of Settlement of the beſt part of her Eſtate; which I wheadl'd out of her; [...]1700, [William] Congreve, The Way of the World, a Comedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act III, scene xviii, page 51

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