Whee‑dle

Definition

wheedle /'wi:dl/ v ( derog ) (က) ~ sth (out of sb) နားပူ နားဆာလုပ္သည္။ ေျမႇာက္ထိုးပင့္ေကာ္လုပ္၍ အရယူသည္။ a wheedling tone of voice ❍ She wheedled the money out of her father. ❍ He managed to wheedle his way into the party. ❍ He wheedled his way into the building. ❍ ‘Oh go on, please,’ he wheedled. (ခ) ~ sb (into doing sth) ပူဆာသည္။ ကပ္ခြၽဲသည္။ ကပ္ႏႉးသည္။ The children wheedled me into letting them go to the film.

Examples

1. ‘The film-makers were busy on the lot or on location
2. but our producers
3. like Jacob
4. stayed in the tents
5. free to wheedle
6. convince and extort position from and in the studio system.’
7. ‘Of course
8. she had no idea if she could talk her manager into stopping at some of these towns
9. but she could beg and wheedle and cajole if she had to.’
10. ‘The story probably continued with a bit more wheedling and pleading
11. but I wasn't really listening.’
12. ‘He is at the same time bullying and wheedling
13. but will
14. when cornered
15. reiterate the anodyne phrases he picked up on the intensive salesman's course.’
16. ‘He wheedles that he was in Japan when it happened.’
17. ‘For much of the film
18. Emily courts embarrassment with wheedling
19. flirtatious attempts to stop the girl's uptight uncle from taking her back to the States.’
20. ‘A thousand bodies and they're already at the negotiating table with tails between their legs
21. probably wheedling and begging the resistance to pack it in.’
22. ‘Roses voice was soft and wheedling
23. her smile saccharin sweet.’
24. ‘We're meant to be talking about the phenomenon of plastic surgery and the potential risks it poses for patients
25. and instead I'm having my vital statistics wheedled out of me by a complete stranger.’
26. ‘With the new cameras will come no mercy
27. no human face to wheedle
28. cajole
29. or insult.’
30. ‘Despite the best intentions
31. one is tempted to bargain for a more advantageous position
32. to make or demand concessions
33. to wheedle and to coax
34. to impose one's agenda and vocabulary.’
35. ‘We do all the talking; we plead
36. wheedle
37. deny and cajole.’
38. ‘You view your employer more as an equal and you begin to think of ways that you can add value to your services instead of thinking of ways to wheedle more benefits from your feudal overlord.’
39. ‘But then
40. 10 minutes later
41. he's still needling and wheedling so convincingly you start to flip-flop back to the earlier assumption that
42. self-effusing pretence or not
43. Alan Davies hates having his picture taken.’
44. ‘He wheedled with a smile to show that he wasn't too serious.’
45. ‘‘I'll give you one of these grown-up sweets if you keep walking
46. ’ I wheedle
47. proffering a Tune.’
48. ‘Foreign managers also tell of other problems: differing objectives or partners wheedling to get associates into key posts.’
49. ‘During all of this editorial project - all the boasting
50. praising
51. cajoling
52. and wheedling
53. indulging in witty asides - I've been staring fixedly into a computer screen.’
54. ‘‘Lily really wants to get to know you better
55. ’ Morgan wheedled.’
56. ‘Many of them command such skills as cajoling
57. wheedling
58. thundering
59. condescending