Definition of "wheedlesome" [wheedlesome]

• Coaxing; cajoling.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• ""That 's lovely, Tom," and Polly found it so touching that she felt for her handkerchief; but Tom took it away, and made her laugh instead of cry, by saying, in a wheedlesome tone, –"
• ""If he can't help us, ask him if he won't take me," said Peace, in her most wheedlesome tones."
• "Anything more wheedlesome than that touching appeal was seldom heard, but Jo quenched ` her boy 'by turning on him with a stern query, "How many bouquets have you sent Miss Randal this week?""