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Wheedle

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Verb

1. blarney, cajole, coax, inveigle, palaver, sweet-talk, wheedle

influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering

Example Sentences:
'He palavered her into going along'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Wheedle

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verb
1. 
to persuade or try to persuade (someone) by coaxing words, flattery, etc
2. (transitive)
to obtain by coaxing and flattery
she wheedled some money out of her father

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Wheedle

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verb transitive, verb intransitiveWord forms: ˈwheedled or ˈwheedling
1. 
to influence or persuade (a person) by flattery, soothing words, coaxing, etc.
2. 
to get (something) by coaxing or flattery

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Wheedle

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v. whee·dled, whee·dling, whee·dles
v.tr.
1. To obtain through the use of flattery or guile: a swindler who wheedled my life savings out of me.
2. To persuade or attempt to persuade by flattery or guile; cajole: "They could marry on the fortune Miss Starling had wheedled her employer into leaving her" (W. Somerset Maugham).
v.intr.
To use flattery or cajolery to achieve one's ends.

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