wheedly
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English
Etymology
Adjective
wheedly (comparative more wheedly, superlative most wheedly)
- Involving or characterized by wheedling (flattery, cajoling); coaxy.
- 1838 October, Sarah Lyttelton, Baroness Lyttelton, “Lady Lyttelton to the Hon. Caroline Lyttelton.”, in Mrs. Hugh Wyndham , editor, Correspondence of Sarah Spencer, Lady Lyttelton: 1787–1870, London: John Murray, published 1912, page 282:
- The maids of honour (Miss Lister and Miss Paget) are very coaxy and wheedly with me, and nice creatures both of them.
- 1955, Patrick White, The Tree of Man, New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →ISBN, page 74:
- "Listen, dear," said Mrs. O'Dowd, who had begun to sound wheedly, "shall we be goin to look at the floods?"
- 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest , Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 887:
- 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.
- 2021, Louise Erdrich, The Sentence: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper, →ISBN, page 8:
- Danae's voice went sweet and wheedly. ¶ 'You're big. You can heft him. Budgie's on the slight side.'
References
- “wheedly, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
