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UK
/wˈiːdəl/
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VERB
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influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering
He palavered her into going along
How To Use wheedle In A Sentence
- He wheedles that he was in Japan when it happened.
- In puzzle mode that initially just means activating them slowly enough not to cause collisions, but later levels demand deeper experimentation with order and timing before you wheedle out a viable solution. This week's new games
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- The legend of Mata Hari is, for sure, the most enduring image of the female spy - the vamp who wheedles state secrets out of men by her seductive charms.
- Dr. Nair wheedled, and often pricked, the group to bring out their concerns and knowledge about the needs and demands of adolescence.
- That 's lovely, Tom," and Polly found it so touching that she felt for her handkerchief; but Tom took it away, and made her laugh instead of cry, by saying, in a wheedlesome tone, – An Old-Fashioned Girl
- We do all the talking; we plead, wheedle, deny and cajole.
- He wheedles his harmonica - a horrible sound.
- You view your employer more as an equal and you begin to think of ways that you can add value to your services instead of thinking of ways to wheedle more benefits from your feudal overlord.
- In the extremely price-sensitive furniture industry, customers are typically wheedled into opening their wallets during ‘one day only!’