I tried to wheedle him into telling me the answer.
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Wheedle
//ˈʍiː.dəl//
Synonyms for "wheedle" (99 found)
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Closest matches (20)
Strong matches (30)
Related words (49)
Verb(19 words)
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Translations
46 translations across 15 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 誘哄 /诱哄 verb (cajole)
Czech
4 entries- přemluvit verb (cajole)
- přesvědčit verb (cajole)
- vyloudit verb (obtain by guile or trickery)
- vymámit verb (obtain by guile or trickery)
Finnish
1 entries- lirkutella verb (cajole)
French
1 entries- amadouer verb (cajole)
German
4 entries- abbetteln verb (obtain by guile or trickery)
- abheucheln verb (obtain by guile or trickery)
- abschmeicheln verb (obtain by guile or trickery)
- abschwatzen verb (obtain by guile or trickery)
Hungarian
1 entries- hízeleg verb (cajole)
Italian
1 entries- ottenere con lusinghe verb (obtain by guile or trickery)
Latin
1 entries- lactō verb (cajole)
Māori
2 entries- pīnono verb (cajole)
- pīnono verb (obtain by guile or trickery)
Romanian
2 entries- flata verb (cajole)
- linguși verb (cajole)
Russian
4 entries- вы́манить ле́стью verb (obtain by guile or trickery)
- выма́нивать ле́стью verb (obtain by guile or trickery)
- обха́живать verb (cajole)
- подли́зываться verb (cajole)
Scots
1 entries- tice verb (cajole)
Spanish
2 entries- camelar verb (cajole)
- engatusar verb (cajole)
Ukrainian
3 entries- виманювати лестощами verb (obtain by guile or trickery)
- ластитися verb (cajole)
- підлещуватися verb (cajole)
Welsh
4 entries- chwidlo verb (cajole)
- cocsio verb (cajole)
- hocedu verb (obtain by guile or trickery)
- hudo verb (obtain by guile or trickery)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
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.
Source: wiktionary
[…]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.
Source: wiktionary
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