wheedle

Synonyymisanakirja

wheedle

suostutella, taivuttaa, maanitella, houkutella, taivutella, vikitellä, lirkutella, viekoitella, mairitella, uhkailla, pelotella.

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Englannin sanakirja

wheedle (englanti > suomi)

1. lirkutella

wheedle englanniksi

1. To cajole or attempt to persuade by flattery.

2. 1977, w:Geoffrey Chaucer|Geoffrey Chaucer (in modern translation), w:The Canterbury Tales|The Canterbury Tales ("The Wife of Bath's Tale"), Penguin Classics, p. 290:

Though he had beaten me in every bone / He still could wheedle me to love.

Id like one of those, too, if you can wheedle him into telling you where he got it.''

3. To obtain by flattery, guile, or trickery.

4. Congreve

A deed of settlement of the best part of her estate, which I wheedled out of her.

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