wheedly

Involving or characterized by wheedling (flattery, cajoling); coaxy.

Adjective

  1. Involving or characterized by wheedling (flattery, cajoling); coaxy.
    • The maids of honour (Miss Lister and Miss Paget) are very coaxy and wheedly with me, and nice creatures both of them. - 1838 October, Sarah Lyttelton, Baroness Lyttelton, “Lady Lyttelton to the Hon. Caroline...
    • "Listen, dear," said Mrs. O'Dowd, who had begun to sound wheedly, "shall we be goin to look at the floods?" - 1955, Patrick White, The Tree of Man, New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →ISBN, page 74:
    • There's no way the guy could be like intentionally making his voice this wheedly-sounding; it's got to be Gately's own Disease. - 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little,...

Origin

From wheedle + -y.

Forms

more wheedly most wheedly