I tried to wheedle him into telling me the answer.
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Wheedle
/ˈʍiː.dəl/
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The passing years may have weakened Mom's body and mind. But at ninety two years of age she still steadfastly refuses all my attempts to wheedle from her that highly acclaimed and much sought after culinary blueprint.
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I’d like one of those, too, if you can wheedle him into telling you where he got it.
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[…]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.
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