As for Slickson, I take it, some o' these days he'll wheedle his men back wi' fair promises; that they'll just get cheated out of as soon as they're in his power again.
His countenance had a strongly masculine cast; not properly human, but such as we see in the bull, the goat, or the domestic boar; something equivocal and wheedling, something greedy, brutal, and dangerous.
" You've got to eat some breakfast." " I don't want anything." " Just a bit of toast, " wheedled Hermione. " I'm not hungry." Harry felt terrible. In an hour's time he'd be walking onto the pitch.
I put him down for one of those good-for-nothings who have gone to the devil in Paris and I expected him to pull a hard-luck story to wheedle a few francs out of me for a dinner and a bed.