wheedling

• POS: Verb (usu participle)

THESAURUS

wheedling

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

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wheedling

Flattery

N flattery, adulation, gloze, blandishment, blandiloquence, cajolery, fawning, wheedling, captation, coquetry, obsequiousness, sycophancy, flunkeyism, toadeating, tuft- hunting, snobbishness, incense, honeyed words, flummery, bunkum, buncombe, blarney, placebo, butter, soft soap, soft sawder, rose water, voice of the charmer, mouth honor, lip homage, euphemism, unctuousness, flattering, adulatory, mealy-mouthed, honey-mouthed, honeyed, smooth, smooth-tongued, soapy, oily, unctuous, blandiloquent, specious, fine-spoken, fair spoken, plausible, servile, sycophantic, fulsome, courtierly, courtier-like, ad captandum.