Wheedle vs False - What's the difference?
wheedle | false |
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
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
*{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
, title= Based on factually incorrect premises: false legislation
Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a verb wheedle
is to cajole or attempt to persuade by flattery.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.wheedle
English
Verb
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.
Anagrams
*false
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Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}
