'wheedle' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It means to coax or persuade someone to do something through flattery or smooth talk. Example: She tried to wheedle her way into getting a raise by complimenting her boss's work and skills.
· Some shops don't allow you to try on during the sales, so be prepared to wheedle your way into the changing room, or else take a chance on the odd garment.
The $28bn burger chain is out to pilfer your pennies and wheedle your wad with an artful dodger too charming to refuse.
Now, as politicians try to wheedle their way back to respectability, all sorts of constitutional changes are suddenly on the table, distracting just a touch from the more painful task of punishing the fiddlers and tightening the rules.
Superficially, the country modernised rapidly, observers say, but underneath the old habits of government-by-favour, which Mr Erdogan had once opposed, seemed to wheedle their way back.A chastened prime minister could still put the economy back on a better trajectory, say even some of those who oppose him.
He can only listen to the local politicians and in turn try to bend the ears of federal ones, to wheedle some extra money here, another road there.
Now he has reversed course: the new charges will begin in 2012 instead, in time for the Olympic games but a year after the EC's deadline.Some clean-air campaigners question the mayor's commitment, arguing conspiratorially that he agreed to reinstate the pollution-charging scheme only after it became clear that British attempts to wheedle more time from the EC were not going well.
Insubordinate air-force officers would skip the indoctrination and congregate at the buffet, where an ingratiating KGB man would try to wheedle them back in.
That might help the government wheedle majorities, but on a bill-by-bill basis especially tough for planned amendments to the constitution (see table, above).
This is both wrong and dangerous.The challenge for Western firms and governments is how to help African citizens wheedle data out of their governments so as to hold them more to account.
He has never appointed a vice-president and was trying to wheedle his son Gamal into the job.
And that co-operation is unlikely until the Palestinians have evidence some freedom of movement, say, or an end to the demolishing of houses that Israel is dancing to roughly the same peace music.It would be a shame if Mr Sharon manages to wheedle Mr Bush away from the logic of simultaneous Israeli-Palestinian action with warm banalities about the two men's shared anti-terrorist determination.
