Wheedle
['wiːd(ə)l] or ['widl]
Definition
(verb.) influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering; 'He palavered her into going along'.
Editor: Rudolf--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To entice by soft words; to cajole; to flatter; to coax.
(v. t.) To grain, or get away, by flattery.
(v. i.) To flatter; to coax; to cajole.
Inputed by Lewis
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Flatter, cajole, coax, inveigle, humor, court, fawn upon, pay court to.
Edited by Candice
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Coax, cajole, decoy, flatter, entice, inveigle
ANT:Deter, chide, scare, undeceive, disabuse
Checker: Maisie
Definition
v.t. to entice by soft words: to flatter.—n. a coaxing person.—n. Wheed′ler.—adj. Wheed′lesome coaxing.—n. Wheed′ling.
Typist: Lottie
Examples
- You're an artful little puss to flatter and wheedle your cross old sister in that way. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- To go petting Papa and helping you, just to wheedle you into liking him. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- They looked at the shy deer, and Hermione talked to the stag, as if he too were a boy she wanted to wheedle and fondle. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I see what you are after; but you'll not wheedle me--I am no cat's-paw. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Paul employ to surprise my secret--to wheedle, to threaten, to startle it out of me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Laurie came every day, and wheedled Aunt March till Amy was allowed to go out with him, when they walked and rode and had capital times. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- It is a roundabout wheedling sort of thing which I should not have credited you with. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Governors Both,' returned the man, in what he meant to be a wheedling tone, 'which on you might be Lawyer Lightwood? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
Editor: Warren