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Significados de wheedle em inglês

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Influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering.

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Uso de wheedle em inglês
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Others came with the intention to wheedle the receipt from the shop-woman.
Mrs. Day's Daughters
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She would wheedle things out of her mistress in the slyest way.
True to his Colours / The Life that Wears Best
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Marygay had disappeared again, hopefully trying to wheedle something out of Singhe.
The Forever War
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They would fain wheedle them into something that shall blunt their hostility.
Political Pamphlets
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Do not think to wheedle me back to be your fool again.
Bohemian Days: Three American Tales
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You can't wheedle her like you did the old man, you know.
In a Steamer Chair, and Other Stories
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I intreat, I implore, I wheedle, I flatter, I fawn, I lie!
Clarence
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Some hackers also pose as internal AOL Operations Security staff to wheedle information.
Wired
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He tried cautiously to wheedle out an answer to what really interested him.
Depths
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I'll be able to wheedle these things out of you in your sleep.
The last illusion
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Posing, posturing, and strutting, men coax, wheedle, flatter, and sweet talk.
The Disposable Male
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I laughed and said: I knew you would be able to wheedle him.
The Touchstone of Fortune / Being the Memoir of Baron Clyde, Who...
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I peremptorily refused, and they then tried to wheedle me out of beads.
What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile
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You know you can wheedle him out of anything, if you want to.
Clemence / The Schoolmistress of Waveland
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Swift, that wants to be one, will coax and wheedle them.
The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., a Colonel in the Service of H...
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She'll try to wheedle you into backing down from this position.
The Naturewoman
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Translations for wheedle
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Wheedle ao longo do tempo
Wheedle nas variantes da língua
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