Blandish vs Wheedle - What's the difference?
blandish | wheedle |
To persuade someone by using flattery; to cajole.
To praise someone dishonestly; to flatter or butter up.
To cajole or attempt to persuade by flattery.
* 1977 , ("The Wife of Bath's Tale"), Penguin Classics, p. 290:
To obtain by flattery, guile, or trickery.
* Congreve
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
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(es)Derived terms
* blandisher * blandishmentwheedle
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and (intransitive)- 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.
- A deed of settlement of the best part of her estate, which I wheedled out of her.
