- wheedle: influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering; "He palavered her into going along"
- To encourage or persuade by effort; to coax
- ("Cajoled") Encouragement ,often lengthy, to reassure and steer a pHD in the direction of something that will benefit them.
- (v.) to urge, coax (Magda's friends cajoled her into drinking too much.)
- (v.) to urge, coax (Fred’s buddies cajoled him into attending the bachelor party.)
- To persuade by flattery or deceit “into” or “out of”. I managed to cajole him out of becoming a professional footballer.
- To coax, to attempt to persuade by flattery or cunning. I like applying this definition of cajole to the gentle manipulation that we must use to gradually get our parrots used to new situations and objects.
- to coax with flattery or insincere talk.
- (v) - to cheat by flattery
- to use flattery to persuade