wheedler

"How can you be such a wheedler when you're only eight?"

His tone veered between that of bully and wheedler.

The way he asked for money put to use his prodigious talents as a preacher, a wheedler, a comic and a man in dire financial need.

Similarly, the noun "bragger" may be derived from the Gaelic word bréagóir, a liar, wheedler, deceiver or exaggerator.

In "Theodore H. White at Large," he defines the profession he honored: "A good reporter is a cross between a beggar and a detective, a wheedler and a prosecutor.

I could tell he did not want to answer, to shift his focus from whatever had upset him; but he was a wheedler, a borrower, and he did not want to offend a potential source of small loans.

Mr. Colby is particularly gifted at landing Ethan's most repellent lines, but when he's supposed to be ingratiating he's a transparent wheedler, and he fails to make the slightest case that Ethan could attract either a solid and decent woman like Laurie or a randy young thing like Sophie.