Esempi dal corpus di testo per WHEEDLED
1. And behind every cheque wheedled from big business has been the charismatic presence of Lord Levy, Tony Blair‘s unpaid fund–raiser now for well over a decade.
2. "Sir," we told him, "We intend to print your conversation with Mr Stephin Merritt, in full, in our newspaper." He wheedled, he threatened, he bullied, he bribed.
3. In 1'6' his friend Patti Smith wheedled a free room for him at the Chelsea Hotel, offering the prospect of future fame as collateral.
4. Friends say she has recently wheedled her way back into his affections after discovering that he was seeing a new girl.
5. Her husband Isaur – a banker she had married at 15 – claimed he had wheedled the truth from her father after hearing rumours.