Swindle vs Wheedle - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between swindle and wheedle

is that swindle is to defraud (someone) while wheedle is to cajole or attempt to persuade by flattery.

is an instance of.

(swindl)

To defraud (someone).

''The two men swindled the company out of $160,000.

To obtain money or property by fraudulent or deceitful methods.

* (to be swindled) be sold a pup * (to defraud) swizz (informal, mainly British)

(en noun)

An instance of .

* scheme, swizz (informal, mainly British)

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.