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Wheedle
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Part of speech: verb (v.)
1. To entice by soft words; to cajole; to flatter; to coax. The unlucky art of wheedling fools. Dryden. And wheedle a world that loves him not. Tennyson.
2. To grain, or get away, by flattery. A deed of settlement of the best part of her estate, which I wheedled out of her. Congreve.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To flatter; to coax; to cajole.