All wheedle synonyms
whee·dle
W w verb wheedle
- coax — If you coax someone into doing something, you gently try to persuade them to do it.
- cajole — If you cajole someone into doing something, you get them to do it after persuading them for some time.
- inveigle — to entice, lure, or ensnare by flattery or artful talk or inducements (usually followed by into): to inveigle a person into playing bridge.
- charm — Charm is the quality of being pleasant or attractive.
- persuade — to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging: We could not persuade him to wait.
- talk — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- talk into — persuade
- finagle — to trick, swindle, or cheat (a person) (often followed by out of): He finagled the backers out of a fortune.
- banter — Banter is teasing or joking talk that is amusing and friendly.
- blandish — to seek to persuade or influence by mild flattery; coax
- con — Con is the written abbreviation for constable, when it is part of a policeman's title.
- court — A court is a place where legal matters are decided by a judge and jury or by a magistrate.
- draw — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- entice — Attract or tempt by offering pleasure or advantage.
- flatter — to make flat.
- kowtow — to act in an obsequious manner; show servile deference.
- oil — any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming, lubricating, illuminating, heating, etc.
- seduce — to lead astray, as from duty, rectitude, or the like; corrupt.
- snow — Sir Charles Percy (C. P. Snow) 1905–80, English novelist and scientist.
- soap — a substance used for washing and cleansing purposes, usually made by treating a fat with an alkali, as sodium or potassium hydroxide, and consisting chiefly of the sodium or potassium salts of the acids contained in the fat.
- soft-soap — Informal. to cajole; flatter.
- sweet-talk — to use cajoling words.
- worm — Write-Once Read-Many
- butter up — If someone butters you up, they try to please you because they want you to help or support them.
- lay it on — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- soften up — make softer
- work on — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
- get out — an offspring or the total of the offspring, especially of a male animal: the get of a stallion.
- draw out — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- obtain — to come into possession of; get, acquire, or procure, as through an effort or by a request: to obtain permission; to obtain a better income.
- extract — Remove or take out, especially by effort or force.