Crossword-Solution: WHEEDLING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Wheedling | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Wheedle |
We have 7 clues for the answer “WHEEDLING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| coaxing | 8 answers |
| Promises. | 15 answers |
| Sweet talk | 20 answers |
| Sweet-talk | 22 answers |
| humouring | 24 answers |
| Palaver | 36 answers |
| Blarney ___ | 56 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TERAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with WHEEDLING (5)
And he was wheedling in his ways to him, as if Ralph were now become one who might do him great good if so his will were.
You tell me this man you have here spent weeks and months wheedling needy women out of small sums of money; that he used a drug at the best, and a poison at the worst; that he turned up afterwards as the lowest kind of moneylender, and cheated most poor people in the same patient and pacific style.
You have good news of ’is ’ealth, I trust? as well as that of Monseer the Count?’ God forgive me! the horrible fellow was still puffing and panting with the fury of his assault, and already he had fallen into an obsequious, wheedling familiarity like that of an old servant,—already he was flattering me on my family connections! I followed him through the house into the stable-yard, where I observed the driver washing the cart in a shed.
What could she do? To speak to the proprietor would be to cause a great commotion, to attract attention to herself--and how would that help to bring back the stolen pocketbook, taken perhaps by the proprietor himself? She recalled that as she hurried through the office from the dining-room he had a queer shifting expression, gave her a wheedling, cringing good morning not at all in keeping with the character he had shown the night before.
But up to the last month or so of those six years he steadfastly refused to have anything to do with the Baronne de Feucheres--not that Sophie ever gave up manoeuvring and wheedling for a return to Court favour.
Quotes with WHEEDLING (3)
The unnamed man’s nose flared in insult as he thought to himself while the pig named Corbin prattled on. He disgusts me with his gluttonous sweat and fearful stink. He is like a swine, plumped up for the slaughter, but none I would like to eat. He sits across the table from me wheedling, desiring, wanting more and more and more. He wants assurances of safety, he wants money, he want, he wants, he wants... I am close, but not quite ready, to lean across and slit his jowls with…
He seemed to be lying on the bed. He could not see very well. Her youthful, rapacious face, with blackened eyebrows, leaned over him as he sprawled there.“‘How about my present?’ she demanded, half wheedling, half menacing.“Never mind that now. To work! Come here. Not a bad mouth. Come here. Come closer. Ah!“No. No use. Impossible. The will but not the way. The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. Try again. No. The booze, it must be. See Macbeth. One last try. No, no use…
Hullo!” said Merry. “So that’s what is bothering you? Now, Pippin my lad, don’t forget Gildor’s saying — the one Sam used to quote: Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.” “But our whole life for months has been one long meddling in the affairs of Wizards,” said Pippin. “I should like a bit of information as well as danger. I should like a look at that ball.” “Go to sleep!” said Merry. “You’ll get information enough, sooner or later. …