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wheedler

WordNet
  1. (n) wheedler
    someone who tries to persuade by blandishment and coaxing
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) wheedler
    One who wheedles.
Usage in literature

I don't know how you do it, but you are a born wheedler. "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

MADAME JOURDAIN: (Aside) He's a real wheedler! "The Middle Class Gentleman" by Moliere

Here was a wheedler trying to get round them. "L'Assommoir" by Emile Zola

The Short Serpent was commanded by Thorkel Nefja, a kinsman of Olaf's; and Thorkel the Wheedler (brother of Queen Astrid) commanded the Crane. "Olaf the Glorious" by Robert Leighton

Smith, wheedler of trout, landed us in quite an ambitious foamy surf at the foot of a declivity below our future host's farm. "Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, Number 59, September, 1862" by Various

But I enter most often the habitation of the orchids, my little wheedlers, by preference. "The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume IV (of 8)" by Guy de Maupassant

You're our champion wheedler. "The Jolliest School of All" by Angela Brazil

I don't know how you do it, but you are a born wheedler. "Little Women" by Louisa M. Alcott

Is that all of your Ballad, Mr. Wheedler? "Mr Punch's Model Music Hall Songs and Dramas" by F. Anstey