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What does wheedle mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To cajole or attempt to persuade by flattery.
  2. (transitive) To obtain by flattery, guile, or trickery.
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Thus Jerez was dependent on what ammunition he could bully or steal or wheedle from passing travellers or raw new-comers.
Many times he would approach a patient and wheedle his great head under the patient's hand.
With the new cameras will come no mercy, no human face to wheedle, cajole, or insult.
We ought to be able to wheedle that gal out of a few stacks.
They argue, wheedle, misstate, and finally convince the legislator that the measure is absurd.
They knew all the secrets of the ogress, and how to wheedle and coax her.

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