wheedle

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wheedle englannista suomeksi

1. maanitella

0. Verbi

1. lirkutella

1. Substantiivi

wheedle englanniksi

1. To cajole or attempt to persuade by flattery.

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2. (RQ:Austen Persuasion)whether, after preventing her from being the wife of Sir Walter, he may not be wheedled and caressed at last into making her the wife of Sir William.

3. (RQ:Eliot Middlemarch)

4. (quote-book)

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

6. (RQ:Congreve Way of the World)

7. (RQ:Wollstonecraft Maria)

8. (RQ:Scott Ivanhoe)when their best resources were the flitches of bacon and measures of corn, out of which they wheedled poor serfs and bondsmen, in exchange for their prayers(..)

9. A coaxing person.