Wheedle in a sentence as a verb

' Kids that wheedle the teachers for an A- when they deserve a B are reprimanded.

Be nice about it, but firm - say you can't afford it and if they wheedle just stick to that basic point.

They'll just promise to deliver, not do it, and then wheedle their way around the penalties.

In the late 90s, I would wheedle a few bucks out of mom every two weeks to get a few rounds of combat in Duelmasters.

This bothered me:"An ATF agent posing as an arms dealer spent weeks trying to wheedle Diveroli into selling arms.

There is a lot you can do to guide, mold, guilt, manipulate, wheedle, and prod your children into making good decisions, and we intend to do it.

Trying to wheedle and cajole Cargill into growing a conscience is a manifest exercise in futility.

They will try to wheedle you because they'll figure you're sufficiently financially secure to risk failure, but basically they're trying to offload the risk onto you and your Dad.

The main suckitude came from the fact that the more we worked on our real products, the less we wanted to consult we still never had to travel away from our families, stump, beg, wheedle, or go without money.

I'm assuming the reality that systemd's API will eventually wheedle its way into most other Debian components made the decision for him. Swapping out Gnome for Unity is a lot easier for someone downstream of Debian than continuing to maintain Upstart in the face of Systemd will be.

Who knows what other embedded processors with a little bit of flash lurk in various peripherals in your laptop that they've figured out how to wheedle their way into... If the flash is integrated into the microcontroller itself, there may not even be an easy way of reliably dumping its contents.

Wheedle definitions

verb

influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering; "He palavered her into going along"

See also: cajole palaver blarney coax sweet-talk inveigle