"wheedly" meaning in All languages combined

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        "1": "en",
        "2": "wheedle",
        "3": "-y"
      },
      "expansion": "wheedle + -y",
      "name": "suf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From wheedle + -y.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more wheedly",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most wheedly",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "wheedly (comparative more wheedly, superlative most wheedly)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        },
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
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          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
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        }
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        {
          "ref": "1838 October, Sarah Lyttelton, Baroness Lyttelton, “Lady Lyttelton to the Hon. Caroline Lyttelton.”, in Mrs. Hugh Wyndham [Maud Mary Lyttelton], editor, Correspondence of Sarah Spencer, Lady Lyttelton: 1787–1870, London: John Murray, published 1912, page 282:",
          "text": "The maids of honour (Miss Lister and Miss Paget) are very coaxy and wheedly with me, and nice creatures both of them.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1955, Patrick White, The Tree of Man, New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →ISBN, page 74:",
          "text": "\"Listen, dear,\" said Mrs. O'Dowd, who had begun to sound wheedly, \"shall we be goin to look at the floods?\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 887:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, Louise Erdrich, The Sentence: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper, →ISBN, page 8:",
          "text": "Danae's voice went sweet and wheedly. ¶ 'You're big. You can heft him. Budgie's on the slight side.'",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Involving or characterized by wheedling (flattery, cajoling); coaxy."
      ],
      "id": "en-wheedly-en-adj-FRQaOo6V",
      "links": [
        [
          "wheedling",
          "wheedle#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "flattery",
          "flattery#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "cajoling",
          "cajoling#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "coaxy",
          "coaxy#Adjective"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wheedly"
}

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      "args": {
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        "2": "wheedle",
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      },
      "expansion": "wheedle + -y",
      "name": "suf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From wheedle + -y.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more wheedly",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most wheedly",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "args": {},
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      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms suffixed with -y",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1838 October, Sarah Lyttelton, Baroness Lyttelton, “Lady Lyttelton to the Hon. Caroline Lyttelton.”, in Mrs. Hugh Wyndham [Maud Mary Lyttelton], editor, Correspondence of Sarah Spencer, Lady Lyttelton: 1787–1870, London: John Murray, published 1912, page 282:",
          "text": "The maids of honour (Miss Lister and Miss Paget) are very coaxy and wheedly with me, and nice creatures both of them.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1955, Patrick White, The Tree of Man, New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →ISBN, page 74:",
          "text": "\"Listen, dear,\" said Mrs. O'Dowd, who had begun to sound wheedly, \"shall we be goin to look at the floods?\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 887:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, Louise Erdrich, The Sentence: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper, →ISBN, page 8:",
          "text": "Danae's voice went sweet and wheedly. ¶ 'You're big. You can heft him. Budgie's on the slight side.'",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "Involving or characterized by wheedling (flattery, cajoling); coaxy."
      ],
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        [
          "wheedling",
          "wheedle#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "flattery",
          "flattery#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "cajoling",
          "cajoling#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "coaxy",
          "coaxy#Adjective"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wheedly"
}