wheedling
- n the act of urging by means of teasing or flattery
- v influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering
- An honorable weepie uses none of these wheedling devices.
- Publicity is the peddler's art, whose colors are rouge and noir, whose techniques are wheedling, pleading, trading and if the press agent is Sidney Falco lying .
- Now there is an unseemly tug-of-war in Washington, with State Department officials wheedling Treasury counterparts to let up, just a bit, on their international campaign against .