wheedles

Like a latter-day LBJ, he threatens, he wheedles, he charms: antagonists have a hard time saying no.

City Slickers 2008

I can easily see myself falling victim to the wheedles of a tween and having remorse afterwards.

"Obama's ample self-regard is lapsing into hubris." Ann Althouse 2008

When he goes to join his even wealthier sister in the Caribbean for rest and recuperation, he wheedles Roxy along with talk of a troubled niece who needs a nurse.

JET SET NURSE by Jane Converse (Signet 1970) 2007

Sirens ogres — pretty blue-eyed things, peeping at you coaxingly from out of the water, and singing their melodious wheedles.

Roundabout Papers 2006

In Extras, until the last episodes, the stories repeat: Andy wheedles to get a speaking part and gets into awkward social situations with his colleagues; Maggie makes excruciatingly clumsy attempts to bed guys on the set.

Like Hollywood-centric Comedy? HBO Always Has Some Extra - Tuned In - TIME.com 2005

One night Pete has a date and won't be able to do the honors on bass, so I nobly volunteer to take up the support role while Ken wheedles and deedles.

Broken Music, A Memoir Sting 2003

And truly this submission, which sometimes wheedles you into pity, as seldom decoys you into love, as the awkward cringing of an antiquated fop, as moneyless as he is ugly, affects an experienced fair one.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

And truly this submission, which sometimes wheedles you into pity, as seldom decoys you into love, as the awkward cringing of an antiquated fop, as moneyless as he is ugly, affects an experienced fair one.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Cats do not copulate with a rearward presentment on the part of the female, but the male stands erect and the female puts herself underneath him; and, by the way, the female cat is peculiarly lecherous, and wheedles the male on to sexual commerce, and caterwauls during the operation.

The History of Animals 2002

I say I don't see many movies but she wheedles out of me a promise that I won't let anybody snap her picture before she sees a good hair colorist.

Brannon's Choice Browne, Richard W 2001