Sentence example with the word 'wheedling'

wheedling

adulation, buttonholing, demanding, fawning, honeyed phrases, insincere, oily-tongued, preachment, smooth, suasive, urging

Definition n. the act of urging by means of teasing or flattery

Last update: June 26, 2015


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He was the very opposite of Richelieu, as wheedling in his ways as the other had been haughty and scornful, as devoid of vanity and rancour as Richelieu had been full of jealous care for his authority; he was gentle where the other had been passionate and irritable, with an intelligence as great and more supple, and a far more grasping nature.   [Please select]

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Nannetti's father hawked those things about, wheedling at doors as I.   [Please select]

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It was poor Eva wheedling that black rascal Jose.   [Please select]

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He kissed Phrony for her wheedling, but told her that women-folks didn't understand about business.   [Please select]

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But Jem was softly obstinate, and he had inherited some of my mother's wheedling ways.   [Please select]

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Satan stole softly to the gate and in a wheedling voice called to the Peacock,-- "O most wonderful and beautiful bird."   [Please select]

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That second-best lordship yonder, he crept about coaxing this one and wheedling that.   [Please select]

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I think she must have had a kind of notion that it was a coaxing, wheedling little stool.   [Please select]

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Pete watched their wheedling, fawning, and whisking of the tail, and then he said, "Chut."   [Please select]

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And they could be naive and wheedling toward a woman when they chose.   [Please select]

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They called loudly and in the most seductive, wheedling tones: "Pussy, Pussy, poor Pussy."   [Please select]

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