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verb
- 1. use flattery or coaxing in order to persuade someone to do something or give one something: "she wheedled her way on to the guest list"
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WHEEDLE definition: 1. to try to persuade someone to do something or give you something by praising them or being…. Learn more.
The meaning of WHEEDLE is to influence or entice by soft words or flattery. How to use wheedle in a sentence. Wheedle Comes Up Often in Literature Synonym Discussion of Wheedle.
To wheedle is to sweet talk, or flatter someone in the hopes of getting something in return. You might try to wheedle a meter maid into not giving you a parking ticket. Good luck with that.
Wheedle definition: to endeavor to influence (a person) by smooth, flattering, or beguiling words or acts. See examples of WHEEDLE used in a sentence.
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.
If you say that someone wheedles, you mean that they try to persuade someone to do or give them what they want, for example by saying nice things that they do not mean. [disapproval] Cross decided to beg and wheedle a bit. [VERB] He managed to wheedle his way into the offices.
to persuade somebody to give you something or do something by saying nice things that you do not mean synonym coax. wheedle something (out of somebody) The kids can always wheedle money out of their father. wheedle somebody into doing something She wheedled me into lending her my new coat. + speech ‘Come on, Em,’ he wheedled.
WHEEDLE meaning: to persuade someone to do something or to give you something by saying nice things often + into.
Definitions of 'wheedle' If you say that someone wheedles, you mean that they try to persuade someone to do or give them what they want, for example, by saying nice things that they do not mean. [disapproval] [...] More. Pronunciations of 'wheedle' American English: widəl British English: hwiːdəl. More. Conjugations of 'wheedle'
Definition of wheedle verb in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
