Flattery intended to persuade.
The act of urging by means of teasing or flattery.
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Examples for "wheedling "
Examples for "wheedling "
1 He addressed the corner of the room in a wheedling , flattering tone.
2 The inferior's triumph in the presence of his superior must be wheedling .
3 He no longer treated Bongrand in the wheedling , respectful manner of yore.
4 And you make me no more willing by wheedling , dear foster father.
5 He waited for another argument, or at least a spot of wheedling .
1 Every blandishment was used to soothe him, and it had its effect.
2 Mrs. Molineux was proof against this blandishment , and Bella had to go.
3 Mildred closed her eyes for a moment, to savor this sweet blandishment .
4 A widow's degree of blandishment is conservatively estimated at twenty-five spinster power.
5 But the other two were still under the blandishment of his child-like innocence.
6 All the tried and true methods of threat or blandishment had no affect.
7 The actor blinked, caught off guard at having his polite blandishment taken literally.
8 She had plenty of blandishment for Oswald, but not his kind.
9 These men, who had bravely faced persecution, were at last overcome by blandishment .
10 He was a master of blandishment when he had an end thereby to gain.
11 He, however, has proved remarkably resistant to corporate blandishment .
12 But no perfumed blandishment of doubtful goddesses won Longfellow from his sweet and domestic Muse.
13 To any other inducement or blandishment he was adamant.
14 His heart was proof against every female blandishment .
15 Because of his fear of the wolf, the fox continued to approach him with flattery and blandishment .
16 She set her mind against its blandishment .
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