Incite vs Wheedle - What's the difference?
incite | wheedle | Related terms |
To rouse, stir up or excite.
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
Incite is a related term of wheedle.
As verbs the difference between incite and wheedle
is that incite is while wheedle is to cajole or attempt to persuade by flattery.incite
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(incit)- The judge was told by the accused that his friends had to incite him to commit the crime.
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* ----wheedle
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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.
