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Tempt vs Wheedle - What's the difference?

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Tempt is a related term of wheedle.


As verbs the difference between tempt and wheedle

is that tempt is to provoke someone to do wrong, especially by promising a reward; to entice while wheedle is to cajole or attempt to persuade by flattery.

tempt

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To provoke someone to do wrong, especially by promising a reward; to entice.
    • She tempted me to eat the apple.
  • To attract; to allure.
    • Its glossy skin tempted me.
  • To provoke something; to court.
    • It would be tempting fate.

    Derived terms

    * temptation * tempter * temptress * tempt fate * tempt providence

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    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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