Definitions
influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering
Word origin
Uncertain. Perhaps continuing Middle English wedlen (“to beg, ask for alms”), from Old English wǣdlian (“to be poor, be needy, be in want, beg”), from Proto-Germanic *wēþlōną (“to be in need”).
Used in a sentence
“I’d like one of those, too, if you can wheedle him into telling you where he got it.”
“[…]whether, after preventing her from being the wife of Sir Walter, he may not be wheedled and caressed at last into making her the wife of Sir William.”
““Brother Peter,” he said, in a wheedling yet gravely official tone, “It’s nothing but right I should speak to you about the Three Crofts and the Manganese. The Almighty knows what I’ve got on my mind—””
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Coax with flattery”7 letters
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