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# wheedling

«wheedling» in Mova's school dictionary: **Wheedling describes a soft, coaxing voice meant to get…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective; also the -ing form of wheedle

### meaning for a pupil

Wheedling describes a soft, coaxing voice meant to get what you want. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheedling/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a wheedling tone is a sweet, flattering voice that is hard to refuse

### examples

- With bows and smiles, he asked in a wheedling tone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheedling/#x1)
- She had a wheedling way of asking for sweets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheedling/#x2)
- The cat gave a wheedling mew. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheedling/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wheedling» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheedling/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.