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whee·dle Listen to audio/ˈwi:d/ verb
whee·dles; whee·dled; whee·dling
often disapproving : to persuade someone to do something or to give you something by saying nice things [+ obj] He wheedled quite a bit of money from her. We managed to wheedle [=coax] the juicy details out of him.often + into She tried to wheedle us into spending more money than we wanted. He wheedled his way into his current job. [no obj] She pleaded and wheedled, but I wouldn't be swayed.

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