What is "wheedled"

Usage examples of "wheedled".

The badmashes shouted and wheedled, but the soldiers stayed in position until the polls were closed.

Ahmed Sinai liked to be asked nicely for money, to have it wheedled out of him with caresses and sweet words until his table napkin began to rise in his lap as something moved in his pajamas.

Dick Aarens had wheedled himself on board with the communications crew and made such obnoxious comments about how ineffective, stupid, fumble-fingered everyone else was that Zainal shoved him into the spare space suit Aarens had to crouch to fit and complained that the helmet was wearing grooves in his skull---and closed the air lock behind them.

Grodon was terribly homesick the first seven-day, and Rob wheedled bedtime snacks from Lorra to ease his pain.

He fumbled for the small distance-viewer he had wheedled away from Master Rampesi, who had just received a more powerful device from Starmaster Wansor.

The l0x50mm binoculars he had wheedled out of Jancis worked well enough.

But it won't accept any of them until it has been wheedled with Zebadiah's double talk.

I let myself be wheedled and bullied into surrendering authority on the ground.

But am I much better to do now in the world than I was when I was the poor painter’s daughter, and wheedled the grocer round the corner for sugar and tea?

He coaxed, wheedled, cajoled, and complimented Jos Sedley with a perseverance and cordiality of which he was not aware himself, very likely.

She had the knack of seeming full of disingenuous chatter but I already felt that nothing vital would be wheedled out of this witness.

He wheedled himself an exit, under terms that are shrouded in secrecy.