Usually means: Persuades using flattery or coaxing.
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  1. wheedles: Merriam-Webster
  2. wheedles: Collins English Dictionary
  3. wheedles: Vocabulary.com
  4. Wheedles, wheedles: Wordnik
  5. wheedles: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. wheedles: Wiktionary
  7. wheedles: Dictionary.com
  8. wheedles: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. wheedles: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (wheedle)

verb:  (ambitransitive) To cajole or attempt to persuade by flattery.
verb:  (transitive) To obtain by flattery, guile, or trickery.
noun:  (archaic) A coaxing person.
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