wheedling 的 2 个定义
whee·dled, whee·dling.
- to endeavor to influence by smooth, flattering, or beguiling words or acts: We wheedled him incessantly, but he would not consent.
- to persuade by such words or acts: She wheedled him into going with her.
- to obtain by artful persuasions: I wheedled a new car out of my father.
whee·dled, whee·dling.
- to use beguiling or artful persuasions: I always wheedle if I really need something.
wheedling 近义词
talk into
更多wheedling例句
- Sadly, it sounded a little wheedling rather than simply right (which he is).
- "No compriendo," he stammered, though I had heard him use good-enough English of a sort in wheedling for tips.
- The lady in nankeen now began, in a wheedling, coaxing voice, to beg 'Kate' to appear.
- I think she must have had a kind of notion that it was a coaxing, wheedling little stool.
- He had a way of speaking that sounded uncivil to ears attuned to the soft Irish accent and the wheedling tone.
- The reason he was now become so wheedling and she so mysterious was (in brief) that they knew they were about to be sent to bed.