Definition of wheedle in English:

wheedle

verb ˈwiːd(ə)lˈ(h)widl

[no object]

Use endearments or flattery to persuade someone to do something or give one something.
（用谄媚，花言巧语等）哄骗
she wheedled her way on to the guest list
with object she had wheedled us into employing her brother
with direct speech ‘Please, for my sake,’ he wheedled
“就算为了我吧，"他花言巧语道。
Example sentencesExamples
- Roses voice was soft and wheedling, her smile saccharin sweet.
- Many of them command such skills as cajoling, wheedling, thundering, condescending, and even insulting - but, of course, insulting with style.
- ‘I'll give you one of these grown-up sweets if you keep walking,’ I wheedle, proffering a Tune.
- You view your employer more as an equal and you begin to think of ways that you can add value to your services instead of thinking of ways to wheedle more benefits from your feudal overlord.
- The story probably continued with a bit more wheedling and pleading, but I wasn't really listening.
- We do all the talking; we plead, wheedle, deny and cajole.
- He wheedles that he was in Japan when it happened.
- But then, 10 minutes later, he's still needling and wheedling so convincingly you start to flip-flop back to the earlier assumption that, self-effusing pretence or not, Alan Davies hates having his picture taken.
- For much of the film, Emily courts embarrassment with wheedling, flirtatious attempts to stop the girl's uptight uncle from taking her back to the States.
- He is at the same time bullying and wheedling, but will, when cornered, reiterate the anodyne phrases he picked up on the intensive salesman's course.
- Foreign managers also tell of other problems: differing objectives or partners wheedling to get associates into key posts.
- ‘Lily really wants to get to know you better,’ Morgan wheedled.
- With the new cameras will come no mercy, no human face to wheedle, cajole, or insult.
- He wheedled with a smile to show that he wasn't too serious.
- During all of this editorial project - all the boasting, praising, cajoling, and wheedling, indulging in witty asides - I've been staring fixedly into a computer screen.
- The film-makers were busy on the lot or on location, but our producers, like Jacob, stayed in the tents, free to wheedle, convince and extort position from and in the studio system.
- Despite the best intentions, one is tempted to bargain for a more advantageous position, to make or demand concessions, to wheedle and to coax, to impose one's agenda and vocabulary.
- Of course, she had no idea if she could talk her manager into stopping at some of these towns, but she could beg and wheedle and cajole if she had to.
- A thousand bodies and they're already at the negotiating table with tails between their legs, probably wheedling and begging the resistance to pack it in.
- We're meant to be talking about the phenomenon of plastic surgery and the potential risks it poses for patients, and instead I'm having my vital statistics wheedled out of me by a complete stranger.
Synonyms
coax, cajole, inveigle, lure, induce, blarney, entice, charm, tempt, beguile, flatter, persuade, influence, sway, win someone over, bring someone round, prod, talk, convince, make, get, press, prevail on, get round, argue, reason, urge, pressure, pressurize, bring pressure to bear on, coerce
informal sweet-talk, soft-soap, twist someone's arm, smooth-talk, butter someone up

Derivatives

wheedler

noun

Its characters are all louche brutes, cozeners and wheedlers - all save the heroine, Bradshaw.
Example sentencesExamples
- These last few weeks, when the wheedlers hadn't yet taken over my classes, I was a little worried.
- No self-respecting wheedler would try and talk one into eating the whole thing - it would be gauche.
- Ti Malice is the bad boy of Haitian folk literature - a trickster, crook, hustler, wheedler.
- The way he asked for money put to use his prodigious talents as a preacher, a wheedler, a comic and a man in dire financial need.

wheedlingly

adverbˈwiːd(ə)lɪŋliˈ(h)wid(ə)lɪŋli

Different attendants had different styles, though; an older woman had a wheedlingly generous maternal manner and she spoke to us loudly and indulgently as if we were spoiled kids.
Example sentencesExamples
- Shame he seems to have to rely on wheedlingly bland ballads to keep him on the radio though.
- Now and again men came, strangers, who talked excitedly, wheedlingly, and in all kinds of fashions to the man in the red sweater.

Origin

Mid 17th century: perhaps from German wedeln 'cringe, fawn', from Wedel 'tail, fan'.

Rhymes

beadle, bipedal, credal, needle

Definition of wheedle in US English:

wheedle

verbˈ(h)widlˈ(h)wēdl

[no object]

1Use flattery or coaxing in order to persuade someone to do something or give one something.
（用谄媚，花言巧语等）哄骗
she wheedled her way on to the guest list
with object she had wheedled us into employing her brother
with direct speech “Please, for my sake,” he wheedled
“就算为了我吧，"他花言巧语道。
Example sentencesExamples
- We do all the talking; we plead, wheedle, deny and cajole.
- Despite the best intentions, one is tempted to bargain for a more advantageous position, to make or demand concessions, to wheedle and to coax, to impose one's agenda and vocabulary.
- We're meant to be talking about the phenomenon of plastic surgery and the potential risks it poses for patients, and instead I'm having my vital statistics wheedled out of me by a complete stranger.
- The film-makers were busy on the lot or on location, but our producers, like Jacob, stayed in the tents, free to wheedle, convince and extort position from and in the studio system.
- He wheedles that he was in Japan when it happened.
- Many of them command such skills as cajoling, wheedling, thundering, condescending, and even insulting - but, of course, insulting with style.
- With the new cameras will come no mercy, no human face to wheedle, cajole, or insult.
- ‘I'll give you one of these grown-up sweets if you keep walking,’ I wheedle, proffering a Tune.
- During all of this editorial project - all the boasting, praising, cajoling, and wheedling, indulging in witty asides - I've been staring fixedly into a computer screen.
- Of course, she had no idea if she could talk her manager into stopping at some of these towns, but she could beg and wheedle and cajole if she had to.
- He wheedled with a smile to show that he wasn't too serious.
- He is at the same time bullying and wheedling, but will, when cornered, reiterate the anodyne phrases he picked up on the intensive salesman's course.
- You view your employer more as an equal and you begin to think of ways that you can add value to your services instead of thinking of ways to wheedle more benefits from your feudal overlord.
- Foreign managers also tell of other problems: differing objectives or partners wheedling to get associates into key posts.
- ‘Lily really wants to get to know you better,’ Morgan wheedled.
- But then, 10 minutes later, he's still needling and wheedling so convincingly you start to flip-flop back to the earlier assumption that, self-effusing pretence or not, Alan Davies hates having his picture taken.
- For much of the film, Emily courts embarrassment with wheedling, flirtatious attempts to stop the girl's uptight uncle from taking her back to the States.
- Roses voice was soft and wheedling, her smile saccharin sweet.
- A thousand bodies and they're already at the negotiating table with tails between their legs, probably wheedling and begging the resistance to pack it in.
- The story probably continued with a bit more wheedling and pleading, but I wasn't really listening.
Synonyms
coax, cajole, inveigle, lure, induce, blarney, entice, charm, tempt, beguile, flatter, persuade, influence, sway, win someone over, bring someone round, prod, talk, convince, make, get, press, prevail on, get round, argue, reason, urge, pressure, pressurize, bring pressure to bear on, coerce
1. 1.1wheedle something out ofwith object Coax or persuade (someone) to say or give something.
  用花言巧语骗取（某人）某物，哄骗（某人）说出
  Example sentencesExamples
  In an attempt to wheedle personal revelations out of this guarded individual, the programme-makers confronted Brown with a hard-hitting interviewer.
  As one reader who did manage to wheedle an answer out of me on the subject concurred with my original notion that the not-knowing was preferable to the knowing, I shall refrain from adding to your store of knowledge.
  The corner of his mouth turned down at this thought, but he knew there was no way to wheedle it out of Herman, who could be very stubborn at times like these.
  A week before Derry played Cavan in the Ulster championship Eamonn Coleman called to Cassidy and wheedled a commitment out of him for the summer.
  He had managed to wheedle the address out of the class monitor, but she had given him a disgusted look for some reason.
  They were obviously concerned about the way I'd been acting and they would wheedle the truth out of me.
  Politicians are so expert at wheedling their way out of an answer.
  I'm just getting tired of people trying to wheedle your identity out of me.
  This is another good reason to wheedle our way out of the marriage.
  Then let the nuclear industry buy its insurance on the open market like the rest of us instead of wheedling it out of the government like a bunch of Soviet-era factory directors.
  After priestly efforts to wheedle a confession out of him proved unavailing, he was strangled and his body burned.
  That means that some networks might be forced to strike a Faustian bargain: wheedle a fee increase out of operators now, but submit when the operator in turn demands to lock in that rate for several years.
  Evo shrugged, obviously not of the disposition to wheedle it out of me if I didn't want to tell him.
  Earlier this week, Andy Duncan, the chief executive, accused him of wheedling his way out of commitments to regulate the company's advertising rates
  And don't try to wheedle it out of me, or read my mind.
  He seems to be able to wheedle rides out of just about anybody.
  At the centre, built with US funds, where he wheedled a kiss out of a two-year-old girl named Valentina.
  I wheedled my way out of Eric's grasp, laughing when he tried to hold on.
  She had tried to wheedle her mom out of making her go but it hadn't worked so far.
  Hayley had wanted to see him off, but he'd managed to avoid giving her an exact answer, unless she'd managed to wheedle it out of his mother, which was a frightening thought.

Origin

Mid 17th century: perhaps from German wedeln ‘cringe, fawn’, from Wedel ‘tail, fan’.

词汇	wheedle
释义	Definition of wheedle in English: wheedle verb ˈwiːd(ə)lˈ(h)widl [no object] Use endearments or flattery to persuade someone to do something or give one something. （用谄媚，花言巧语等）哄骗 she wheedled her way on to the guest list with object she had wheedled us into employing her brother with direct speech ‘Please, for my sake,’ he wheedled “就算为了我吧，"他花言巧语道。 Example sentencesExamples Roses voice was soft and wheedling, her smile saccharin sweet. Many of them command such skills as cajoling, wheedling, thundering, condescending, and even insulting - but, of course, insulting with style. ‘I'll give you one of these grown-up sweets if you keep walking,’ I wheedle, proffering a Tune. You view your employer more as an equal and you begin to think of ways that you can add value to your services instead of thinking of ways to wheedle more benefits from your feudal overlord. The story probably continued with a bit more wheedling and pleading, but I wasn't really listening. We do all the talking; we plead, wheedle, deny and cajole. He wheedles that he was in Japan when it happened. But then, 10 minutes later, he's still needling and wheedling so convincingly you start to flip-flop back to the earlier assumption that, self-effusing pretence or not, Alan Davies hates having his picture taken. For much of the film, Emily courts embarrassment with wheedling, flirtatious attempts to stop the girl's uptight uncle from taking her back to the States. He is at the same time bullying and wheedling, but will, when cornered, reiterate the anodyne phrases he picked up on the intensive salesman's course. Foreign managers also tell of other problems: differing objectives or partners wheedling to get associates into key posts. ‘Lily really wants to get to know you better,’ Morgan wheedled. With the new cameras will come no mercy, no human face to wheedle, cajole, or insult. He wheedled with a smile to show that he wasn't too serious. During all of this editorial project - all the boasting, praising, cajoling, and wheedling, indulging in witty asides - I've been staring fixedly into a computer screen. The film-makers were busy on the lot or on location, but our producers, like Jacob, stayed in the tents, free to wheedle, convince and extort position from and in the studio system. Despite the best intentions, one is tempted to bargain for a more advantageous position, to make or demand concessions, to wheedle and to coax, to impose one's agenda and vocabulary. Of course, she had no idea if she could talk her manager into stopping at some of these towns, but she could beg and wheedle and cajole if she had to. A thousand bodies and they're already at the negotiating table with tails between their legs, probably wheedling and begging the resistance to pack it in. We're meant to be talking about the phenomenon of plastic surgery and the potential risks it poses for patients, and instead I'm having my vital statistics wheedled out of me by a complete stranger. Synonyms coax, cajole, inveigle, lure, induce, blarney, entice, charm, tempt, beguile, flatter, persuade, influence, sway, win someone over, bring someone round, prod, talk, convince, make, get, press, prevail on, get round, argue, reason, urge, pressure, pressurize, bring pressure to bear on, coerce informal sweet-talk, soft-soap, twist someone's arm, smooth-talk, butter someone up Derivatives wheedler noun Its characters are all louche brutes, cozeners and wheedlers - all save the heroine, Bradshaw. Example sentencesExamples These last few weeks, when the wheedlers hadn't yet taken over my classes, I was a little worried. No self-respecting wheedler would try and talk one into eating the whole thing - it would be gauche. Ti Malice is the bad boy of Haitian folk literature - a trickster, crook, hustler, wheedler. The way he asked for money put to use his prodigious talents as a preacher, a wheedler, a comic and a man in dire financial need. wheedlingly adverbˈwiːd(ə)lɪŋliˈ(h)wid(ə)lɪŋli Different attendants had different styles, though; an older woman had a wheedlingly generous maternal manner and she spoke to us loudly and indulgently as if we were spoiled kids. Example sentencesExamples Shame he seems to have to rely on wheedlingly bland ballads to keep him on the radio though. Now and again men came, strangers, who talked excitedly, wheedlingly, and in all kinds of fashions to the man in the red sweater. Origin Mid 17th century: perhaps from German wedeln 'cringe, fawn', from Wedel 'tail, fan'. Rhymes beadle, bipedal, credal, needle Definition of wheedle in US English: wheedle verbˈ(h)widlˈ(h)wēdl [no object] 1Use flattery or coaxing in order to persuade someone to do something or give one something. （用谄媚，花言巧语等）哄骗 she wheedled her way on to the guest list with object she had wheedled us into employing her brother with direct speech “Please, for my sake,” he wheedled “就算为了我吧，"他花言巧语道。 Example sentencesExamples We do all the talking; we plead, wheedle, deny and cajole. Despite the best intentions, one is tempted to bargain for a more advantageous position, to make or demand concessions, to wheedle and to coax, to impose one's agenda and vocabulary. We're meant to be talking about the phenomenon of plastic surgery and the potential risks it poses for patients, and instead I'm having my vital statistics wheedled out of me by a complete stranger. The film-makers were busy on the lot or on location, but our producers, like Jacob, stayed in the tents, free to wheedle, convince and extort position from and in the studio system. He wheedles that he was in Japan when it happened. Many of them command such skills as cajoling, wheedling, thundering, condescending, and even insulting - but, of course, insulting with style. With the new cameras will come no mercy, no human face to wheedle, cajole, or insult. ‘I'll give you one of these grown-up sweets if you keep walking,’ I wheedle, proffering a Tune. During all of this editorial project - all the boasting, praising, cajoling, and wheedling, indulging in witty asides - I've been staring fixedly into a computer screen. Of course, she had no idea if she could talk her manager into stopping at some of these towns, but she could beg and wheedle and cajole if she had to. He wheedled with a smile to show that he wasn't too serious. He is at the same time bullying and wheedling, but will, when cornered, reiterate the anodyne phrases he picked up on the intensive salesman's course. You view your employer more as an equal and you begin to think of ways that you can add value to your services instead of thinking of ways to wheedle more benefits from your feudal overlord. Foreign managers also tell of other problems: differing objectives or partners wheedling to get associates into key posts. ‘Lily really wants to get to know you better,’ Morgan wheedled. But then, 10 minutes later, he's still needling and wheedling so convincingly you start to flip-flop back to the earlier assumption that, self-effusing pretence or not, Alan Davies hates having his picture taken. For much of the film, Emily courts embarrassment with wheedling, flirtatious attempts to stop the girl's uptight uncle from taking her back to the States. Roses voice was soft and wheedling, her smile saccharin sweet. A thousand bodies and they're already at the negotiating table with tails between their legs, probably wheedling and begging the resistance to pack it in. The story probably continued with a bit more wheedling and pleading, but I wasn't really listening. Synonyms coax, cajole, inveigle, lure, induce, blarney, entice, charm, tempt, beguile, flatter, persuade, influence, sway, win someone over, bring someone round, prod, talk, convince, make, get, press, prevail on, get round, argue, reason, urge, pressure, pressurize, bring pressure to bear on, coerce 1.1wheedle something out ofwith object Coax or persuade (someone) to say or give something. 用花言巧语骗取（某人）某物，哄骗（某人）说出 Example sentencesExamples In an attempt to wheedle personal revelations out of this guarded individual, the programme-makers confronted Brown with a hard-hitting interviewer. As one reader who did manage to wheedle an answer out of me on the subject concurred with my original notion that the not-knowing was preferable to the knowing, I shall refrain from adding to your store of knowledge. The corner of his mouth turned down at this thought, but he knew there was no way to wheedle it out of Herman, who could be very stubborn at times like these. A week before Derry played Cavan in the Ulster championship Eamonn Coleman called to Cassidy and wheedled a commitment out of him for the summer. He had managed to wheedle the address out of the class monitor, but she had given him a disgusted look for some reason. They were obviously concerned about the way I'd been acting and they would wheedle the truth out of me. Politicians are so expert at wheedling their way out of an answer. I'm just getting tired of people trying to wheedle your identity out of me. This is another good reason to wheedle our way out of the marriage. Then let the nuclear industry buy its insurance on the open market like the rest of us instead of wheedling it out of the government like a bunch of Soviet-era factory directors. After priestly efforts to wheedle a confession out of him proved unavailing, he was strangled and his body burned. That means that some networks might be forced to strike a Faustian bargain: wheedle a fee increase out of operators now, but submit when the operator in turn demands to lock in that rate for several years. Evo shrugged, obviously not of the disposition to wheedle it out of me if I didn't want to tell him. Earlier this week, Andy Duncan, the chief executive, accused him of wheedling his way out of commitments to regulate the company's advertising rates And don't try to wheedle it out of me, or read my mind. He seems to be able to wheedle rides out of just about anybody. At the centre, built with US funds, where he wheedled a kiss out of a two-year-old girl named Valentina. I wheedled my way out of Eric's grasp, laughing when he tried to hold on. She had tried to wheedle her mom out of making her go but it hadn't worked so far. Hayley had wanted to see him off, but he'd managed to avoid giving her an exact answer, unless she'd managed to wheedle it out of his mother, which was a frightening thought. Origin Mid 17th century: perhaps from German wedeln ‘cringe, fawn’, from Wedel ‘tail, fan’.
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