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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of wheedle.

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Examples

  • She asked me in a low, musical voice to please destroy the deed, and then she took one of them Smith & Wesson automatic advance agents of death out from under her apron and kind of wheedled me into saying I would.

    Remarks Bill Nye 1873

  • I have wheedled a few women who wanted to be wheedled, that is all. "

    Mike Fletcher A Novel 1892

  • "Does that sound good to you girls?" she wheedled.

    Ellen Snortland: Little Indignities Ellen Snortland 2011

  • One thing led to another and she wheedled out of me the fact that I drove a very fast '55 Chevy, and she begged me to come pick her up and take her out for a ride.

    Becky Jerry Ratch 2011

  • "Does that sound good to you girls?" she wheedled.

    Ellen Snortland: Little Indignities Ellen Snortland 2011

  • There is still one thing that is beyond price, that cannot be bought and paid for, that cannot be wheedled or bullied or blackmailed out of people.

    What then should we do…? at SF Novelists 2009

  • I wheedled a little more from Talbot when he came to make sure we were all packed up, and the rest I got by paying attention to Eric and asking questions.

    Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011

  • I wheedled a little more from Talbot when he came to make sure we were all packed up, and the rest I got by paying attention to Eric and asking questions.

    Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011

  • They had indulged in sharp repartee and she had defended herself brilliantly; and then, yielding to the intoxication of the moment, and of her own power, she had bullied, and mastered, and wheedled, and patronized them with most astonishing success.

    The Wife of a King 2010

  • I told him what I told you, but he begged and wheedled and came back the next day with a half pound of cocoa beans as a present.

    The Sound Thief « A Fly in Amber 2009

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