wheedle
- v influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering
- Presumably untrue is the tale that he got his stake in life through pocketing by agreement 40% of all he could wheedle from the late eccentric Baron Michelham in the interest of .
- Bud, in his mid-20s, is learning how to wheel and wheedle; Tom, in his mid-30s, already knows how to ingratiate and conquer.
- Spielberg: At the very beginning of it, he said to me you have to understand, Stanley was an amazing kind of individual because he was able to wheedle out of you more .