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What is the verb for wheedling?

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wheedle
  1. (transitive) To cajole or attempt to persuade by flattery.
  2. (transitive) To obtain by flattery, guile, or trickery.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Of course, she had no idea if she could talk her manager into stopping at some of these towns, but she could beg and wheedle and cajole if she had to.”
      “I managed to wheedle my way into the sold-out concert by persuading the bouncer with a sob story.”
      “With the new cameras will come no mercy, no human face to wheedle, cajole, or insult.”
wheedling
wheedles
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wheedle
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  3. Examples:
    1. “In the next office, the psychotherapist wheedles admissions from the patient.”
      “Then a furniture shop owner spies his chance, and wheedles his way to a £55 bargain.”
      “Where the South cannot effect her object by browbeating, she wheedles.”
wheedled
  1. simple past tense and past participle of wheedle
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Unable to break the hold crack had on her life, she wheedled every cent she could out of the people around her.”
      “Dr. Nair wheedled, and often pricked, the group to bring out their concerns and knowledge about the needs and demands of adolescence.”
      “Instead of a regular salary, he wheedled money from relatives and in-laws, which he told them he was investing on their behalf in Swiss banks.”
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