How To Use Wheedle In A Sentence
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Despite the best intentions, one is tempted to bargain for a more advantageous position, to make or demand concessions, to wheedle and to coax, to impose one's agenda and vocabulary.
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He wheedled with a smile to show that he wasn't too serious.
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Auntie," and Kit put on his most wheedlesome smile, which was always compelling, "if you'll just let me stay till the first guest comes, I'll scoot out at once.
Patty's Suitors
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She will connive and she will lie and she will wheedle her way in as far as she can wheedle, further than you can imagine, until — — oh, I don't know — — she has the password to your SL account.
"We think we've climbed so high, Up all the backs we've condemned..."
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One or both of them might try to wheedle out of it if she left them a loophole.
HARSHINI
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He hopes to wheedle enough support from the national and prefecture governments to show progress rebuilding before leading citizens move away.
Fateful Choice on a Day of Disaster
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You see, the Boss might come riding down this trail any minute, and the ittle mare's so wheedlesome that if she'd come on to you in your prisint state all of a sudden, she'd stop that short she'd send Mr. McLean out over the ears of her.
Freckles
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A quick phone call to Robert ensured she would be well guarded, and Brystion managed to wheedle our way out of too many questions.
Brush of Darkness
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She wasn't invited, but somehow she managed to wheedle her way in.
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You're just a dishonest solicitor trying to wheedle your way into our family affairs.
IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
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ever, there was an effort to raise funds for civil rights campaigns, Duane managed to wheedle a four-figure check from his mother.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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There is nothing that so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favour with them; nor panderism so apt and so usually made use of to corrupt the chastity of women as to wheedle and entertain them with their own praises.
The Essays of Montaigne — Complete
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‘Lily really wants to get to know you better,’ Morgan wheedled.
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So he tried to wheedle her into Beijie, the elite school.
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Pretty Patty possessed herself of the lady's hand and looked so penitent and so wheedlesome that Mrs. Farrington was disarmed.
Patty Blossom
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She will connive and she will lie and she will wheedle her way in as far as she can wheedle, further than you can imagine, until — — oh, I don't know — — she has the password to your SL account.
"We think we've climbed so high, Up all the backs we've condemned..."
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Patty remembered her defence of Daisy, and couldn't repress a smile at the boy's wheedlesome argument.
Patty's Butterfly Days
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He could have learned to charm and wheedle cooperation from them, and similarly avoided a fight.
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Their favorite words are words that can said with a sneer, but they enjoy words that bark, growl, whine, wheedle, and spit with rage too.
Lance Mannion:
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With the new cameras will come no mercy, no human face to wheedle, cajole, or insult.
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ever, there was an effort to raise funds for civil rights campaigns, Duane managed to wheedle a four-figure check from his mother.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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They have wheedled a holiday from the headmaster.
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You're just a dishonest solicitor trying to wheedle your way into our family affairs.
IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
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Cross decided to beg and wheedle a bit.
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She's one of those children who can wheedle you into giving her anything she wants.
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She wheedled her husband into buying a lottery ticket.
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He was so wheedlesome and so boyish in his enjoyment of the joke, that Patty hadn't the heart to scold him, nor was she sure she had any reason to do so.
Patty's Suitors
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II.3 has Iago left alone after Cassio's departure, after he has wheedled him into drinking a stoup of wine.
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He wheedled money from his father with considerable finesse.
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‘I'll give you one of these grown-up sweets if you keep walking,’ I wheedle, proffering a Tune.
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She even managed to wheedle more money out of him.
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Cross decided to beg and wheedle a bit.
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If he can't help us, ask him if he won't take me," said Peace, in her most wheedlesome tones.
At the Little Brown House
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If not, how did Action Canada wheedle their way in to this otherwise good group of charities?
ProWomanProLife » Questions about World Vision’s vision
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He wheedled money from his father with considerable finesse.
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She must not let him wheedle compliance out of her 'for a pair of reechy kisses', or 'paddling in your neck with his damned fingers'.
Shakespeare
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Among the better things that I had accumulated or wheedled out of people was a charming mid-Victorian tea-caddy, which he took a fancy to.
THE DISPOSAL OF THE LIVING
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He wheedled money from his father with considerable finesse.
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The film-makers were busy on the lot or on location, but our producers, like Jacob, stayed in the tents, free to wheedle, convince and extort position from and in the studio system.
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Patty's wheedlesome air won them all, and they took away the highly-spiced, and strongly-flavoured dish.
Patty Blossom
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Meg kept silence a while, then she said coaxingly, 'Si is a pretty name eneuch; 'tis short an' sweet; gie me a kiss, Si, 'she wheedled, with a gentle clasp about his waist.
Border Ghost Stories
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Anything more wheedlesome than that touching appeal was seldom heard, but Jo quenched ` her boy 'by turning on him with a stern query, "How many bouquets have you sent Miss Randal this week?
Little Women
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They seemed abler bargainers than the men, and the play of expression on their dramatic and intensely feminine faces as they wheedled the price of a calf out of a fierce hillsman, or haggled over a heap of dates that
In Morocco
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She wheedled her husband into buying a lottery ticket.
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He, who was sheer bladed steel in the imperious flashing of his will, could swashbuckle and bully like any over-seas roisterer, or wheedle as wickedly winningly as the first woman out of Eden or the last woman of that descent.
CHAPTER XI
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The old man wheedled the secret out of the innocent girl.
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One or both of them might try to wheedle out of it if she left them a loophole.
HARSHINI
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ever, there was an effort to raise funds for civil rights campaigns, Duane managed to wheedle a four-figure check from his mother.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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When Cocky, balanced on one leg, the other leg in the air as the foot of it held the scruff of Michael's neck, leaned to Michael's ear and wheedled, Michael could only lay down silkily the bristly hair-waves of his neck, and with silly half-idiotic eyes of bliss agree to whatever was Cocky's will or whimsey so delivered.
CHAPTER XI
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This astonishing announcement was doubtless induced by the fact that Patty had been unable to resist his wheedlesome voice and frank, ingenuous manner, and she had indulged in one of her most dimpled smiles.
Patty's Butterfly Days
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In the extremely price-sensitive furniture industry, customers are typically wheedled into opening their wallets during ‘one day only!’
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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.
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He wheedles his harmonica - a horrible sound.
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We do all the talking; we plead, wheedle, deny and cajole.
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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
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Dr. Nair wheedled, and often pricked, the group to bring out their concerns and knowledge about the needs and demands of adolescence.
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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.
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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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He can wheedle people so easily - play tricks with their minds, torture them emotionally, until they give in to despair.
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In the beginning all she managed to wheedle out of him was innocuous enough, if occasionally mildly libellous.
THE ENDLESS GAME
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We're meant to be talking about the phenomenon of plastic surgery and the potential risks it poses for patients, and instead I'm having my vital statistics wheedled out of me by a complete stranger.
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You're just a dishonest solicitor trying to wheedle your way into our family affairs.
IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
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Unable to break the hold crack had on her life, she wheedled every cent she could out of the people around her.
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You don't understand...' `I do understand that you think you can wheedle us by making a lovely supper...' `No!
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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You don't understand...' `I do understand that you think you can wheedle us by making a lovely supper...' `No!
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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‘For 11 long years, he has sidestepped, crawfished, wheedled out of any agreements he had made not to develop weapons of mass destruction,’ he said.
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You don't understand...' `I do understand that you think you can wheedle us by making a lovely supper...' `No!
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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I tried all manner of different approaches - I wheedled, threatened, demanded, cajoled.
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He wheedles that he was in Japan when it happened.
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She managed to wheedle an extra day's pay out of him.
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Ms. LENHART: We heard from teens who said, you know, when I want the yes, I'll go to the phone because my parents can hear my voice and I can kind of wheedle and I can charm them, and that's how I'm going to get what I want.
Teen Texting Soars; Will Social Skills Suffer?
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One or both of them might try to wheedle out of it if she left them a loophole.
HARSHINI
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Of course, she had no idea if she could talk her manager into stopping at some of these towns, but she could beg and wheedle and cajole if she had to.
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You have to be able to wheedle your client into buying.
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He wheedled himself into Mrs. Mifflin's good graces, and ended by putting us both into a book, called Parnassus on Wheels, which has been rather a trial to me.
The Haunted Bookshop
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In both cases, what is going on is a display of pinstriped muscle – an attempt to wheedle, lobby and finally intimidate government from making whatever decisions it feels are necessary in the national rather than sectional interest.
North Sea oil: Trading blows with Mr Osborne | Editorial
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She wheedled the money out of her father.