wheedling
Meaning of wheedling
adjective
- using flattery or coaxing in order to persuade someone to do something or give one something.
I could hear his wheedling tone as he begged her to dance
- the action of flattering or coaxing someone in order to persuade them to do something or give one something.
it took months of wheedling and cajoling, but her persistence was finally rewarded
- use flattery or coaxing in order to persuade someone to do something or give one something.
she wheedled her way on to the guest list
she had wheedled us into employing her brother
‘Please, for my sake,’ he wheedled
mid 17th century: perhaps from German wedeln ‘cringe, fawn’, from Wedel ‘tail, fan’.
Information about wheedling
- The plural form of wheedling is: wheedlings.
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Hyphenation of wheedling
wheedling
- It consists of 1 syllables and 9 chars.
- wheedling is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
wheedling synonyms
Meaning blandishment:
Meaning gently and persistently persuade (someone) to do something:
Meaning persuade (someone) to do something by sustained coaxing or flattery:
Meaning persuade (someone) to do something by means of deception or flattery:
Meaning tempt (a person or animal) to do something or to go somewhere, especially by offering some form of reward:
Meaning succeed in persuading or leading (someone) to do something:
Meaning influence or persuade (someone) using charm and pleasant flattery:
Meaning attract or tempt by offering pleasure or advantage:
Meaning use one's ability to please and attract in order to influence (someone):
Meaning entice or try to entice (someone) to do something that they find attractive but know to be wrong or unwise:
Meaning charm or enchant (someone), often in a deceptive way:
Meaning lavish praise and compliments on (someone), often insincerely and with the aim of furthering one's own interests:
Meaning induce (someone) to do something through reasoning or argument:
Meaning have an influence on:
Meaning move or cause to move slowly or rhythmically backwards and forwards or from side to side:
Meaning poke with a finger, foot, or pointed object:
Meaning speak in order to give information or express ideas or feelings; converse or communicate by spoken words:
Meaning cause (someone) to believe firmly in the truth of something:
Meaning form (something) by putting parts together or combining substances; create:
Meaning come to have (something); receive:
Meaning make strong efforts to persuade or force (someone) to do something:
Meaning give reasons or cite evidence in support of an idea, action, or theory, typically with the aim of persuading others to share one's view:
Meaning think, understand, and form judgements logically:
Meaning try earnestly or persistently to persuade (someone) to do something:
Meaning attempt to persuade or coerce (someone) into doing something:
Meaning produce or maintain raised pressure artificially in (a gas or its container):
Meaning persuade (an unwilling person) to do something by using force or threats:
Words that rhyme with wheedling
Ling, Coaling, Ealing, annealing, antiwhaling, appealing, autodialing, avaling, backpedaling, baling, bealing, berascaling, canaling, capitaling, charcoaling, coaling, concealing, congealing, countersealing, craaling, credentialing, crystaling, dealing, descaling, dialing, downscaling, embaling, empaling, ensealing, equaling, exhaling, fealing, foaling, forepaling, gealing, gimbaling, goaling, haling, healing, impaling, inhaling, initialing, instealing, interdealing, intervaling, journaling, keelhaling, kraaling, lateraling, localing
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