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Перевод: wheedle

[существительное]
угодливость ;
[глагол]
подольщаться; выманивать лестью; задобрить; обхаживать

Тезаурус:

1. Somehow or other Randolph Churchill managed to wheedle his way into the party, which otherwise consisted of Stirling, Fitzroy Maclean, Gordon Alston, Cooper and Rose.
2. Zuwaya said they should not watch television together; sons should not smoke in their father's presence, nor try to wheedle or coax money from them; and mostly they did not do those things.
3. Left to myself I might have tried to persuade, to plead, to wheedle, to say how nice it was going to be at home.
4. For example, if the soft sell chap fails to wheedle his client into buying, his partner can ring him up and say: My colleague's at an important meeting, but he asked me to call you about this stock.
5. The experiment thus suggests that while alpha males can trade on their superior competitive ability to obtain mates, subordinates may have to wheedle their way into favour.
6. Then Mum changed her tone, as she always did when she wanted to wheedle something out of somebody.
7. You can come back and see Josh in the morning - but don't think you can march in here and wheedle your way back into my heart in half an hour - not this time!"
8. The adverts scold us and cajole us and wheedle us and fawn us to keep up with the Joneses.
9. He likes me to wheedle, the brute.
10. "Don't you see," the stranger said, "she doesn't want to wheedle your Uncle Albert into winding up the gramophone, she wants to sit and talk to me like a civilized person.
11. I was an insatiable reader, and whenever I did visit Father at one of his shops, I invariably managed to wheedle a couple of batteries out of him - so that I could read in bed under the bedclothes.
12. It was usual for him to wheedle a few from any European who stopped.)
13. I had to wheedle the information out of him, but Capron said he was the senior case officer on the investigation into Mills, and could confirm absolutely that it was Mills who was the Soviet agent who had betrayed my father.