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    1. “True,” the Sportsman allowed, “But do those stores have a Cantonese proprietor and a Shoshone wife? Those were the only specifics I could wheedle from my curious British friend,” he intimated


    2. She would have to question all the local Fenaises in person, so how many could she wheedle into thumb prints?


    3. "I'm going to withhold that information to respect the privacy of the people involved, don't make this meeting unpleasant by trying to wheedle it out of me


    4. I remember one time, having to take someone out of a meeting, because I knew his only reason for being there was to wheedle his way into the church, so he could sleep with girls in the church, so I actually confronted him in a meeting and took him outside


    5. The counter clerk was busy with a constantly-rotating half-dozen inquiries, but Lester was able to wheedle enough information out to define the task, and left with a sheaf of birth certificate application forms


    6. He was really glum, and she hadn't been able to wheedle out a solid explanation all week long


    7. Well? What do you expect her to do? Must wheedle her way along


    8. ones she could find at the bottom of the basket anything at all to get into a mans bedroom with her old maids voice trying to imagine he was dying on account of her to never see thy face again though he looked more like a man with his beard a bit grown in the bed father was the same besides I hate bandaging and dosing when he cut his toe with the razor paring his corns afraid hed get bloodpoisoning but if it was a thing I was sick then wed see what attention only of course the woman hides it not to give all the trouble they do yes he came somewhere Im sure by his appetite anyway love its not or hed be off his feed thinking of her so either it was one of those night women if it was down there he was really and the hotel story he made up a pack of lies to hide it planning it Hynes kept me who did I meet ah yes I met do you remember Menton and who else who let me see that big babbyface I saw him and he not long married flirting with a young girl at Pooles Myriorama and turned my back on him when he slinked out looking quite conscious what harm but he had the impudence to make up to me one time well done to him mouth almighty and his boiled eyes of all the big stupoes I ever met and thats called a solicitor only for I hate having a long wrangle in bed or else if its not that its some little bitch or other he got in with somewhere or picked up on the sly if they only knew him as well as I do yes because the day before yesterday he was scribbling something a letter when I came into the front room to show him Dignams death in the paper as if something told me and he covered it up with the blottingpaper pretending to be thinking about business so very probably that was it to somebody who thinks she has a softy in him because all men get a bit like that at his age especially getting on to forty he is now so as to wheedle any money she can out of him no fool like an old fool and then the usual kissing my bottom was to hide it not that I care two straws now who he does it with or knew before that way though Id like to find out so long as I dont have the two of them under my nose all the time like that slut that Mary we had in Ontario terrace padding out her false bottom to excite him bad enough to get the smell of those painted women off him once or twice I had a suspicion by getting him to come near me when I found the long hair on his coat without that one when I went into the kitchen pretending he was drinking water 1 woman is not enough for them it was all his fault of course ruining servants then proposing that she could eat at our table on Christmas day if you please O no thank you not in my house stealing my potatoes and the oysters 2/6 per doz going out to see her aunt if you please common robbery so it was but I was sure he had something on with that one it takes me to find out a thing like that he said you have no proof it was her proof O yes her aunt was very fond of oysters but I told her what I thought of her suggesting me to go out to be alone with her I wouldnt lower myself to spy on them the garters I found in her room the Friday she was out that was enough for me a little bit too much her face swelled up on her with temper when I gave her her weeks notice I saw to that better do without them altogether do out the rooms myself quicker only for the damn cooking and throwing out the dirt I gave it to him anyhow either she or me leaves the house I couldnt even touch him if I thought he was with a dirty barefaced liar and sloven like that one denying it up to my face and singing about the place in the W C too because she knew she was too well off yes because he couldnt possibly do without it that long so he must do it somewhere and the last time he came on my bottom when was it the night


    9. wheedle out of working with us, claiming he needed time


    1. If only he’d told Angie, they would’ve coped somehow – she’d said as much when she finally wheedled the truth out of him a good week after the firm closed down


    2. "Anyway, about Klarrain," Luray said, fingering his ribs, "I told him, I wheedled him, I nagged him until he got testy in fact


    3. Before long, he had wheedled Sierra away from Curt altogether


    4. After that, she wheedled her way in past the


    5. They caught you by surprise,” Myra wheedled


    6. “Don’t you want to be with me?” I wheedled


    7. 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


    8. He wheedled, bribed, ridiculed, threatened, and scolded; affected indifference, that he might surprise the truth from her; declared her knew, then that he didn't care; and at last, by dint of perseverance, he satisfied himself that it concerned Meg and Mr


    9. rested her arm, 'that I had wheedled her husband from her


    10. “No, no,” she started in, but he eventually wheedled her out of the room

    11. ‘Ah, don’t talk to me! Last winter she wheedled herself in here and told the count such vile, disgraceful things about us, especially about Sophie- I can’t repeat them- that it made the count quite ill and he would not see us for a whole fortnight


    12. “Ah, don’t talk to me! Last winter she wheedled herself in here and told the count such vile, disgraceful things about us, especially about Sophie—I can’t repeat them—that it made the count quite ill and he would not see us for a whole fortnight


    13. Young Carrington coaxed Trevanion into telling them mining stories, wheedled Hastings into all kinds of reminiscences of his boyhood, assumed their ultimate escape so confidently that Hastings thought it a genuine hopefulness


    1. "Tdeshi was never a friend," Tahlmute said, "the prior soul in her body, she was wheedling me for favors, she wanted a back door into the Kassikan


    2. ‘Kate … may I ask a favour?’ he went on in a deliberately wheedling tone of voice


    3. The morning after we received Aban’s note and we had left our agreement by way of reply, Menachem began the process of wheedling and joking with our guards to try and effect the desired meeting with our fellow prisoners


    4. His voice was like a humiliated child, wheedling


    5. “That’s what he said, I swear,” Claude assured them in the most sincere tone he could manage, wheedling with them to find something


    6. ” The tone was wheedling, and I didn’t like the lascivious way he said present


    7. He came towards Leon, and, with that smile of wheedling benignity assumed by ecclesiastics when they question children—


    8. Can I trust your assertion, Isabella? Are you sure you hate me? If I let you alone for half a day, won't you come sighing and wheedling to me again? I dare say she would rather I had seemed all tenderness before you: it wounds her vanity to have the truth exposed


    9. Haig has been a nettlesome presence in the White House, constantly wheedling power where he can find it, often at the expense of Vice President George Bush


    10. ” I hate the sound of my voice, the wheedling note, the desperation

    11. “I’d promise to clean it up afterward, Sir!” Mahgrudyr looked at his CO entreatingly, his tone wheedling


    12. "Brother Peter," he said, in a wheedling yet gravely official tone, "It's nothing but right I should speak to you about the Three Crofts and the Manganese


    13. “I know why he’s in trouble,” Michelle said in her most wheedling voice


    14. “Is this because of that, that bullshit back in high school?” Farther in the background, a child’s wheedling voice yelled out, “Moo-oom, I nee-eed you


    15. He came towards Leon, and, with that smile of wheedling


    16. The cop part of Walter had a knack of wheedling his way inside you, so that you were left feeling transparent and obvious


    17. Can I trust your assertion, Isabella? Are you sure you hate me? If I let you alone for half a day, won’t you come sighing and wheedling to me again? I daresay she would rather I had seemed all tenderness before you: it wounds her vanity to have


    18. The inferior's triumph in the presence of his superior must be wheedling


    19. ” He spoke in wheedling tones, and wriggled as he walked along


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    Synonyms for "wheedle"

    blarney cajole coax inveigle palaver sweet-talk wheedle entreat plead beg beguile

    "wheedle" definitions

    influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering