Usually means: Persuasive coaxing using gentle flattery.
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  1. wheedling: Merriam-Webster
  2. wheedling: Collins English Dictionary
  3. wheedling: Vocabulary.com
  4. wheedling: Wordnik
  5. wheedling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. wheedling: Wiktionary
  7. wheedling: Dictionary.com
  8. wheedling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Wheedling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. wheedling: Rhymezone
  11. Wheedling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. wheedling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. wheedling: FreeDictionary.org
  14. wheedling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. wheedling: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. wheedling: Legal dictionary

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  1. wheedling: Idioms

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  1. Wheedling: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See wheedle as well.)

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adjective:  Coaxing, aiming to persuade.
noun:  The act of one who wheedles.

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