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Blandish vs Wheedle - What's the difference?

blandish | wheedle |

As verbs the difference between blandish and wheedle

is that blandish is to persuade someone by using flattery; to cajole while wheedle is to cajole or attempt to persuade by flattery.

blandish

English

Verb

(es)
  • To persuade someone by using flattery; to cajole.
  • To praise someone dishonestly; to flatter or butter up.
  • Derived terms

    * blandisher * blandishment

    wheedle

    English

    Verb

    and (intransitive)
  • To cajole or attempt to persuade by flattery.
  • * 1977 , ("The Wife of Bath's Tale"), Penguin Classics, p. 290:
  • Though he had beaten me in every bone / He still could wheedle me to love.
    I'd like one of those, too, if you can wheedle him into telling you where he got it.
  • To obtain by flattery, guile, or trickery.
  • * Congreve
  • A deed of settlement of the best part of her estate, which I wheedled out of her.

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