Defraud vs Wheedle - What's the difference?
defraud | wheedle |
To obtain money or property by fraud; to swindle.
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*:I had never defrauded a man of a farthing, nor called him knave behind his back. But now the last rag that covered my nakedness had been torn from me. I was branded a blackleg, card-sharper, and murderer.
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 defraud and wheedle
is that defraud is to obtain money or property by fraud; to swindle while wheedle is to cajole or attempt to persuade by flattery.defraud
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(en verb)See also
* fraudster English transitive verbswheedle
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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.