Wheedled vs Pleased - What's the difference?
wheedled | pleased |
(wheedle)
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
(please)
As verbs the difference between wheedled and pleased
is that wheedled is (wheedle) while pleased is (please).As an adjective pleased is
happy, content.wheedled
English
Verb
(head)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.