Wheedling Sentence Examples

wheedling

  • However, as the benefits have increased, card firms have also become cleverer at wheedling money out of customers.

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  • Some dogs insist on wheedling their way onto your bed and other furniture in search of a cushy place to take a nap, even if it isn't allowed.

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  • He was the very opposite of Richelieu, as wheedling in his ways as the other had been haughty and scornful, as devoid of vanity and rancour as Richelieu had been full of jealous care for his authority; he was gentle where the other had been passionate and irritable, with an intelligence as great and more supple, and a far more grasping nature.

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