How To Use Wheedling In A Sentence
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A fiend for organising mega cultural events in college, young Ismail's wiliness and wheedling skills come to the fore in organising mega cultural events in college.
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And they enslaved you over again — but not frankly, as the true, noble men would do with weight of their own right arms, but secretly, by spidery machinations and by wheedling and cajolery and lies.
Chapter 38
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If you have a good plan, if you can prove that it will work, what is the necessity for 'wheedling' anybody?
A Daughter of the Land
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Geiton the hero, a handsome, curly-pated hobbledehoy of seventeen, with his câlinerie and wheedling tongue, is courted like one of the sequor sexus: his lovers are inordinately jealous of him and his desertion leaves deep scars upon the heart.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Acclaim for the film of Sir Hector's last expedition was gradually wheedling stray young men like sated woodworms, into the light of potential dangers.
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Roses voice was soft and wheedling, her smile saccharin sweet.
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And they enslaved you over again — but not frankly, as the true, noble men would do with weight of their own right arms, but secretly, by spidery machinations and by wheedling and cajolery and lies.
Chapter 38
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But Nietzsche spurns all our querulous wheedlings, and wonders how in our ‘constant fluttering around the single flame of vanity… an honest and pure urge for truth could have arisen among men’.
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You tell me this man you have here spent weeks and months wheedling needy women out of small sums of money; that he used a drug at the best, and a poison at the worst; that he turned up afterwards as the lowest kind of moneylender, and cheated most poor people in the same patient and pacific style.
The Complete Father Brown
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But then, 10 minutes later, he's still needling and wheedling so convincingly you start to flip-flop back to the earlier assumption that, self-effusing pretence or not, Alan Davies hates having his picture taken.
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But it's not just that Friedman is a little late to this realization, it's his tone of neo-Victorian moral condescension, that wheedling, whining schoolmarm-on-a-laptop tone of his that drives me beserko.
Robert Teitelman: Thomas Friedman Discovers Reinvention Again
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On any one else, this might be “wheedling.” datingjesus
They’re voting on marriage equality in Maine « Dating Jesus
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And Barratt successfully shows that under the mayor's wheedling sycophancy lurks a monster who dispatches his enemies to a torture chamber with an ominously naked bulb.
Government Inspector – review
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Project Greenlight cut through that thick layer of wheedling, flattering and politicking.
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Finally, after some wheedling, she consented to a shish taouk sandwich.
Day of Honey
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An exchange of cradle-babes, and the base-born slave may wear the purple imperially, and the royal infant begs an alms as wheedlingly or cringe to the lash as abjectly as his meanest subject.
CHAPTER 20
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I recalled the richly robed, veiled, wheedling free woman whom I had permitted to place it there.
Cinnamon Roll
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There is something naif and amusing in this exhibition of cheatery — this simple cringing and wheedling, and passion for twopence-halfpenny.
Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
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For much of the film, Emily courts embarrassment with wheedling, flirtatious attempts to stop the girl's uptight uncle from taking her back to the States.
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I enjoy the fact that I live in a country where I can bitch about the coffee and find one that slavishly responds to my infantile wheedling and I am infantile about my cuppa jobe.
It's the coffee!
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Let me coorie in bed wi "you tonight and I'll no' tell Father on you,' he said in wheedling tones.
NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
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He was a sad dog, for, in the course of a quarter of an hour he ran up a score upon the strength of an alleged promise on our parts to pay all expenses, and succeeded in wheedling another zwanziger in advance out of our cashier, the military Lübecker.
A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France
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On the contrary, he was masterful in whatever he did, but he had a trick of whimsical wheedling that Dede found harder to resist than the pleas of a suppliant lover.
Chapter XX
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He is at the same time bullying and wheedling, but will, when cornered, reiterate the anodyne phrases he picked up on the intensive salesman's course.
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I tried to study her face for some trace of the winning girl I'd known, but there was nothing left in either her drained appearance or her wheedling manner.
Intervals
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Of all forms of indiscriminate almsgiving, that is the most offensive and most worthless, and they knew it, or they would not have sent me a wheedling invitation to come and inspect their relief work, offering to have a carriage take me around.
Roosevelt comes—Mulberry Street’s Golden Age
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Naples was altogether different, but even here it must be admitted that her conception of deserving people was not at all that set forth in those novels of Dostoievski which Albertine had taken from my shelves and devoured, that is to say in the guise of wheedling parasites, thieves, drunkards, at one moment stupid, at another insolent, debauchees, at a pinch murderers.
The Captive
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Isabella tried a softer approach, wheedling like a turkey whisperer.
At Hidden Falls
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I don't want to win the support of the Conservative group in the parliament in a wheedling, ingratiating or deal-making way, but because my colleagues acknowledge that I'm the best to lead that group.
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A platform of kinetic cut-and-paste electronica is enriched by waves of horns and choral voices, relentless bass patterns, darting guitars, crisp percussion, jolting changes in meter and Thom Yorke's wheedling vocals sung often without chordal support.
Lucinda Williams Snarls, Mary J. Blige Thrills
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Many of them command such skills as cajoling, wheedling, thundering, condescending, and even insulting - but, of course, insulting with style.
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Deliberately provoke your adversary. Find something that makes them angry and keep wheedling away on this point until they lose their temper and so the argument.
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I knew by your wheedling tone that you wanted something from me.
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During all of this editorial project - all the boasting, praising, cajoling, and wheedling, indulging in witty asides - I've been staring fixedly into a computer screen.
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The voice was wheedling, half chanting, with a sickish thrill in it.
DOLL'S EYES
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Of all forms of indiscriminate almsgiving, that is the most offensive and most worthless, and they knew it, or they would not have sent me a wheedling invitation to come and inspect their “relief work,” offering to have a carriage take me around.
The Making of an American
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The show's power, though, came from the unending tango between the socially aspirant Harold, desperate to escape the ancestral pigsty, marry a nice girl and eat with matching knives and forks; and the calculating old man clinging on, needy and wheedling, that feral gurn switching between rabid contempt and wide-eyed horror of loneliness.
Who's the daddy?: the greatest sitcom fathers
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The guttural voice became desperate and wheedling.
Brush of Darkness
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Of all forms of indiscriminate almsgiving, that is the most offensive and most worthless, and they knew it, or they would not have sent me a wheedling invitation to come and inspect their "relief work," offering to have a carriage take me around.
The Making of an American
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The shameless cocotte Venus, wheedling her husband Vulcan for armour for Aeneas, her son by Anchises, disrobes aided by a passing amoretto and Vulcan himself in Vulcan and Venus.
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Foreign managers also tell of other problems: differing objectives or partners wheedling to get associates into key posts.
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Hook them through the belly and they'll swim up, but that will only feed the skimmers, terns and gulls wheedling overhead.
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The story probably continued with a bit more wheedling and pleading, but I wasn't really listening.
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A thousand bodies and they're already at the negotiating table with tails between their legs, probably wheedling and begging the resistance to pack it in.
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Now the wheedling has begun again, this time to entice me into the maw of the ultimate terror: parenthood.
