Wheedling vs Adulation - What's the difference?
wheedling | adulation | Related terms |
coaxing, aiming to persuade.
* 1888 , Howard Pyle, Otto of the Silver Hand ,
Flattery; fulsome praise.
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, passage=Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.}}
* 1919 , ,
Wheedling is a related term of adulation.
As nouns the difference between wheedling and adulation
is that wheedling is the act of one who wheedles while adulation is flattery; fulsome praise.As a verb wheedling
is .As an adjective wheedling
is coaxing, aiming to persuade.wheedling
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- Then, in a soft, wheedling voice, "Canst thou not let me in, my little bird? Sure there are other lasses besides thyself who would like to trade with a poor peddler who has travelled all the way from Gruenstadt just to please the pretty ones of Trutz-Drachen."
adulation
English
Noun
(en noun)- It is still possible to discuss his place in art, and the adulation of his admirers is perhaps no less capricious than the disparagement of his detractors; [...]