Wheedling used in a sentence

Wheedling in a sentence as a noun

The wheedling out of passwords was done for Yahoo!

There's Novell inside the igloo wheedling Tux into taking the gift.

There would be very little wheedling over $50 involved.

I'm so sick of wheedling and cajoling and writing letters and asking pretty-please...

I was able to get a couple of apps approved, but I have perfected my forelock-pulling and wheedling skills.

It goes right along with publishing in the highest impact journals and wheedling more money out of your alumni.

Every wheedling trick in the book will be used to track you, up to and including holding arbitrary charities emotionally hostage.

"Inducement" is a broader category that includes other methods like begging, badgering, and wheedling.

Add in that an uber is much more likely to show up when called than a taxi, and all of a sudden it seems worthwhile compared to an airport shuttle or wheedling a ride from a friend.

It was a a group of kids in middle school talking about the MUD they were playing that completely lit my imagination and led to me wheedling my parents for months until they agreed to get one.

Instead of spending six weeks writing and then a year wheedling people to part with their $50 as if that were a meaningful amount of money, I could pick up a phone tomorrow morning, call one of a couple CEOs, and say "So, still want my help?

Have you tried looking for the actual text of these?Edit: your argument is- IMF requires laws XYZ as part of loan agreement- country implements XYZ exactly as required- this is the fault of the country not the IMF?Please cite examples of countries successfully "wheedling out of" or defaulting on the IMF.

The passivity of that communication is rooted in tone, but not about conflict avoidance or politeness as the examples listed under active communication suggest - rather, it's a tone of wheedling insistence, if such a racy and vivid metaphor can be accurate.

For many countries politically wheedling out of their obligations is a real strategy, and the easiest way to do this is to discredit international lending, which, in turn is easiest to do by inflicting the pain of austerity on the poorest instead of the politically connected.

I wouldn't be surprised if they're handling this the way they handle most domestic censorship; not so much the iron hand coming down, but more a wheedling pressure: "why would you stir up so much trouble, don't you know you're just causing bad blood, think about how this might influence future relations, you're not stupid, I know you'll do the right thing.

Quote Examples using Wheedling

The article decries "digging up Wikipedia and planting cabbages over it", but there are also many other areas of the Web which aren't "bullying and wheedling and neediness.. invisible selling... loveless flirting and cowardly mocking... unbearable long silences and the ceaseless screaming chatter... vengeful rivalries... frenzied desperation and ...wrenching loneliness.".

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