wheedling – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
wheedle
v.
coax by flattery or enticement; obtain through flattery or seduction; use flattery persuasions
Seduction
Seduction is the process of deliberately enticing a person, to lead astray, as from duty, rectitude, or the like; to corrupt, to persuade or induce to engage in
sexual behaviour. The word seduction stems from
Latin and means literally "to lead astray". As a result, the term may have a positive or negative connotation. Famous seducers from history or legend include
Lilith,
Giacomo Casanova and the fictional character
Don Juan. Seduction as a phenomenon is not the subject of scientific interest, although similar, more specific terms like short-term mating,
casual sex or mating strategies are used in
evolutionary psychology. The
Internet enabled the existence of a
seduction community which is based on
pseudoscientific discourse on seduction.
wheedling
Noun
1. the act of urging by means of teasing or flattery
(synonym) blandishment
(hypernym) enticement, temptation
(hyponym) ingratiation, insinuation
(derivation) wheedle, cajole, palaver, blarney, coax, sweet-talk, inveigle
wheedle
Verb
1. influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering; "He palavered her into going along"
(synonym) cajole, palaver, blarney, coax, sweet-talk, inveigle
(hypernym) persuade
(hyponym) soft-soap
(derivation) wheedler, coaxer
Wheedling
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Wheedle
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
wheedling
Synonyms and related words:
adulation, adulatory, allurement, bland, blandishing, blandishment, blarney, blarneying, bunkum, buttery, buttonholing, cajolement, cajolery, cajoling, coaxing, compliment, complimentary, conning, courtierly, courtly, demanding, dunning, engagement, enlistment, exhortation, exhortative, exhortatory, eyewash, fair words, fair-spoken, fawning, fine-spoken, flattering, flattery, fulsome, grease, gushing, honey-mouthed, honey-tongued, honeyed, honeyed phrases, honeyed words, hortation, hortative, hortatory, importunate, importunateness, importunity, incense, inducement, insincere, insinuating, insistent, jawboning, lobbying, mealymouthed, nagging, obsequious, oil, oily, oily-tongued, palaver, persuading, persuasion, persuasive, pestering, plaguing, plying, praise, preaching, preachment, pressing, pressure, pretty lies, sales talk, salesmanship, selling, slimy, slobbery, smarmy, smooth, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, snow job, soap, soapy, soft soap, soft-soaping, solicitation, suasion, suasive, sweet nothings, sweet talk, sweet words, sycophancy, sycophantic, teasing, unctuous, urgency, urgent, urging, working on
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
