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15 words match “WHEEDLE”

WHEEDLE v. 3 definitions
ft words; to cajole; to flatter; to coax. The unlucky art of wheedling fools. Dryden. And wheedle a world that loves him not. Tennyson.
BAM v.
To cheat; to wheedle. [Slang] Foote.
BLARNEY v.
To influence by blarney; to wheedle with smooth talk; to make or accomplish by blarney. "Blarneyed the landlord." Irving. Had blarneyed his way from Long Island. S. G. Goodrich.
CAJOLE v.
To deceive with flattery or fair words; to wheedle. I am not about to cajole or flatter you into a reception of my views. F. W. Robertson.
CAJOLER n.
A flatterer; a wheedler.
COAX v.
To persuade by gentle, insinuating courtesy, flattering, or fondling; to wheedle; to soothe.
COG v. 2 definitions
To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat. [R.] I'll . . . cog their hearts from them. Shak.
COME v.
To circumvent; to wheedle. [Colloq.] -- To come short, to be deficient; to fail of attaining. "All have sinned and come short of the glory of God." Rom. iii. 23. -- To come to. (a) To consent or yield. Swift. (b) (Naut.) (with the accent on to) To luff; to brin the ship's head nearer the wind; to anchor. (c) (with the…
DANDLE v.
To play with; to put off or delay by trifles; to wheedle. [Obs.] Captains do so dandle their doings, and dally in the service, as it they would not have the enemy subdued. Spenser.
FLATTER v.
of, esp. by artful and interested commendation or attentions; to blandish; to cajole; to wheedle. When I tell him he hates flatterers, He says he does, being then most flattered. Shak. A man that flattereth his neighbor, spreadeth a net for his feet. Prov. xxix. 5. Others he flattered by asking their advice. Prescott.…
GLAVER v.
To flatter; to wheedle. [Obs.] Some slavish, glavering, flattering parasite. South.
GLOZE v.
To flatter; to wheedle; to fawn; to talk smoothly. Chaucer. A false, glozing parasite. South. So glozed the tempter, and his proem tuned. Milton.
INGLE v.
To cajole or coax; to wheedle. See Engle. [Obs.]
INVEIGLE v.
ade to something evil by deceptive arts or flattery; to entice; to insnare; to seduce; to wheedle. Yet have they many baits and guileful spells To inveigle and invite the un unwary sense. Milton.
SOAP v.
To flatter; to wheedle. [Slang]