Wheedling vs Flattery - What's the difference?
wheedling | flattery | Related terms |
coaxing, aiming to persuade.
* 1888 , Howard Pyle, Otto of the Silver Hand ,
(uncountable) Excessive praise or approval, which is often insincere and sometimes contrived to win favour.
*
, title=The Mirror and the Lamp
, chapter=2 (countable) An instance of excessive praise.
Wheedling is a related term of flattery.
As nouns the difference between wheedling and flattery
is that wheedling is the act of one who wheedles while flattery is (uncountable) excessive praise or approval, which is often insincere and sometimes contrived to win favour.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."
flattery
English
Noun
citation, passage=That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery , seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.}}