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Trickery vs Wheedle - What's the difference?

trickery | wheedle |

As a noun trickery

is (uncountable) deception or underhanded behavior.

As a verb wheedle is

to cajole or attempt to persuade by flattery.

trickery

English

Noun

(trickeries)
  • (uncountable) Deception or underhanded behavior.
  • * 1852 , , Bleak House , ch. 1:
    • In trickery , evasion, procrastination, spoliation, botheration, under false pretences of all sorts, there are influences that can never come to good.
  • (uncountable) The art of dressing up; imposture.
  • (uncountable) Artifice; the use of one or more stratagems.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 21 , author=Jonathan Jurejko , title=Newcastle 3-0 Stoke , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=French winger Hatem Ben Arfa has also taken plenty of plaudits recently and he was the architect of the opening goal with some superb trickery on the left touchline.}}
  • (countable) An instance of deception, underhanded behavior, dressing up, imposture, artifice, etc.
  • * 1809 , , Knickerbocker's History of New York , ch. 47:
    • [H]e did not wrap his rugged subject in silks and ermines, and other sickly trickeries of phrase.
  • * 1898 , , "See UP" in Stories in Light and Shadow :
    • The miners found diversions even in his alleged frauds and trickeries . . . and were fond of relating with great gusto his evasion of the Foreign Miners' Tax.

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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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