wheedly

comparative more wheedly · superlative most wheedly

1. Involving or characterized by wheedling (flattery, cajoling); coaxy.

   Danae's voice went sweet and wheedly. ¶ 'You're big. You can heft him. Budgie's on the slight side.'

   2021, Louise Erdrich, The Sentence: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper, →ISBN, page 8

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   The maids of honour (Miss Lister and Miss Paget) are very coaxy and wheedly with me, and nice creatures both of them.

   1838 October, Sarah Lyttelton, Baroness Lyttelton, “Lady Lyttelton to the Hon. Caroline Lyttelton.”, in Mrs. Hugh Wyndham [Maud Mary Lyttelton], editor, Correspondence of Sarah Spencer, Lady Lyttelton: 1787–1870, London: John Murray, published 1912, page 282

   "Listen, dear," said Mrs. O'Dowd, who had begun to sound wheedly, "shall we be goin to look at the floods?"

   1955, Patrick White, The Tree of Man, New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →ISBN, page 74

   There's no way the guy could be like intentionally making his voice this wheedly-sounding; it's got to be Gately's own Disease.

   1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 887