wheedlingly
In coaxing manner
In a coaxing or flattering manner, using charm or gentle persuasion to get what one wants: She asked wheedlingly if she could borrow the car.
The word suggests soft persistence rather than direct demands—the verbal equivalent of tugging someone's sleeve.
Able to persuade
- enticingPowerfully attractive
- alluringPowerfully appealing
- beguilingCharmingly deceptive
- seductivePowerfully attractive, tempting
charming · eloquent · silver-tongued · compelling · winning · honeyed · mellifluous · dulcet
Persuading through gentle persistence
- cajolingPersuading through flattery
- fawningExcessive insincere flattery
- flatteringExcessively praising, often insincerely
- sweet-talkingPersuading through flattery
smooth-talking · obsequious · toadying · sycophantic · bootlicking · grovelling · servile · unctuous
Sly, scheming cleverness
- schemingCrafty and calculating
- calculatingColdly self-serving in strategy
- connivingSecretly planning wrongdoing
- guilefulInclined toward deception
artful · crafty · underhanded · insidious · devious · sly · wily · disingenuous
convincing
Able to persuade
seductive · charming · eloquent · silver-tongued · compelling · winning · honeyed · mellifluous · dulcet · tempting
coaxing
Persuading through gentle persistence
- cajolingPersuading through flattery
- fawningExcessive insincere flattery
- flatteringExcessively praising, often insincerely
sweet-talking · smooth-talking · obsequious · toadying · sycophantic · bootlicking · grovelling · servile · unctuous · solicitous
cunning
Sly, scheming cleverness
- schemingCrafty and calculating
- calculatingColdly self-serving in strategy
- connivingSecretly planning wrongdoing
guileful · artful · crafty · underhanded · insidious · devious · sly · wily · disingenuous · duplicitous
wheedlinglydemandingly
In an insistent manner
forcefully · commandingly · authoritatively · imperiously · dictatorially
wheedlinglybluntly
Speaking without diplomacy
directly · straightforwardly · forthrightly · plainly · candidly