1 You're an artful little puss to flatter and wheedle your cross old sister in that way.
2 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.
3 There was indignation in his hoarse bass voice but also a wheedling note, and Scarlett teasingly clicked her tongue against her teeth as she reached out to pull his cravat into place.
4 And then, in a wheedling tone: "When I was mentioning the Tarletons the while ago, I wasn't pushing them."
5 You always find some new way of wheedling money out of me, and, as soon as you have got it, it seems to melt in your hands.
6 He was crossing you and wheedling you, I saw; and you were soft wax in his hands, I saw.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 32. THE BEGINNING OF A LONG JOURNEY 7 The inferior's triumph in the presence of his superior must be wheedling.
Les Misérables (V5) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN... 8 Well," he began wheedlingly, "we'll be forgetting all that.
9 She wanted to cry in his arms and say that she, too, had been overly proud of the child's horsemanship, overly indulgent to her wheedlings.