What's the difference between fondle and wheedle?

Fondle


Definition:

  • (v.) To treat or handle with tenderness or in a loving manner; to caress; as, a nurse fondles a child.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Additionally, the Schmidt-Furlow investigators looked at instances where female interrogators had fondled prisoners, or pretended to splash menstrual blood upon them.
  • (2) I would be sitting in the studio with my headphones on, my back to the studio door, live on air, and couldn't hear a thing except what was in my headphones, and then I'd find these wandering hands up my jumper fondling my breasts," she said.
  • (3) She writes: It used to be that evil finance plots at least had the dignity to be conducted in back rooms, with much mustache-twirling and fondling of watch fobs as well as hearty, if ominous laughs.
  • (4) Case description methodology was used to obtain treatment acceptability ratings for mentally retarded and nondisabled (normal) sex offenders across three different offenses (masturbation, rape, and child fondling) and eight interventions.
  • (5) As the debate reached its conclusion, Stockwood, dressed grandly in a purple cassock and pompously fondling his crucifix in a way that was devastatingly lampooned by Rowan Atkinson a week later on a Not the Nine O'Clock News sketch, delivered his parting shot of, "You'll get your 30 pieces of silver."
  • (6) He was suspended for a few months, and then four years later – after a different man, an assistant principal, was arrested for fondling and exposing himself to a freshman – he was suspended again.
  • (7) The pair did not have sex though he fondled her and reportedly kissed her "roughly".
  • (8) David Trent: Pull down your trousers and pants and inconclusively fondle yourself in front of a woman wearing a fancy dress dog suit.
  • (9) The offenses reported included fondling and masturbation (30 rings), oral, anal, or vaginal intercourse (21 rings), and production of child pornography (two rings).
  • (10) The relationship between sexual behavior pre-post hysterectomy differences and sexual satisfaction only showed a significant correlation for the sexual behavior of coitus (r = -2.012, p less than .001), and fondling of sex organs (r = -.1121, p less than .05).
  • (11) If you move on from kissing to fondling to oral sex to vaginal intercourse, make sure you’re both comfortable at each stages.
  • (12) Parents Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar told Kelly their son had confessed to fondling four of his sisters , saying: “He’s very sorry.” Kelly asked the Duggars pointed questions, but she also gave them lots of leeway to complain about “anti-Christian bias” and argue that the real victim of the situation was Josh, who, they say, had his privacy violated by the leaked report.
  • (13) The most common form of sexual activity was group sex; the next most common was fondling.
  • (14) If the accusations are true, Lord Rennard's gropings will be all too familiar to women everywhere, harried by grimy colleagues fondling, pinching, leering, and pretending women can't take a joke if they complain.
  • (15) Eight of the boys he was found guilty of molesting testified at his trial, describing a range of abuse that included fondling, oral sex and anal intercourse.
  • (16) All sex crimes against children – both penetration and fondling – are treated with great seriousness, and there is little difference in sentencing between them, she says.
  • (17) For the low income group, the sexual behavior with the most significant decrease in frequency was fondling the sex organs (t = 2.21, p less than .05).
  • (18) When he does, he just wants to hold me tightly, and just fondling me vaguely seems bring him satisfaction, though he doesn't ejaculate as such.
  • (19) The fondling was done over the girls’ clothes and, except in two cases, happened when the girls were asleep, Jim Bob Duggar said in a Fox one-hour special about the case.
  • (20) Think about detail in a novel, the details that please you, and learn to fondle these details.

Wheedle


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To entice by soft words; to cajole; to flatter; to coax.
  • (v. t.) To grain, or get away, by flattery.
  • (v. i.) To flatter; to coax; to cajole.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Still, there's an upside to 007's monogamy, and it may just explain how this much-maligned film has wheedled its way so irrevocably into my affections: uniquely in the world of Bond, it allows a vein of romantic adventure to develop that's real, not illusory.
  • (2) Pleading, shouting, wheedling, cajoling: none made any difference whatsoever.
  • (3) At the risk of being a complete bore …” he wheedles to John Reid, then the health secretary.
  • (4) Bird, convinced he wanted to be a writer and performer, had been quietly wheedling his school to teach drama at A-level.
  • (5) Netanyahu should be wooed and wheedled, coaxed and cajoled.
  • (6) He is terribly afraid of seeming self-satisfied, and is trying to wheedle out of the photographer a promise that he won't make him look pleased with himself.
  • (7) Labour and Tory alike may wheedle, protest and whinge.
  • (8) In a cable dated August 2004 titled "Alleged North Korean involvement in missile assembly and underground facility construction in Burma", one of the embassy staff wheedled information from an officer during a visit to Rangoon .
  • (9) It has heard wheedling from France's prime minister: "We will do everything to get [the triple A] back."
  • (10) The fact that he privately bombarded ministers with wheedling letters, contrary to his constitutional position, was an open secret but the government fought to keep the details under wraps.
  • (11) He's nuts – he should be wheedling with me; all a photographer can work with is a gallery of expressions, and after 37 years of no success at all, I don't think he has the facial musculature for smug.
  • (12) He wheedled a few things out of me - that was part of the fun.
  • (13) Kadyrov's response was characteristically wheedling.
  • (14) In one respect, America’s aeronautical myth has to wheedle its way around a flagrant contradiction: Air Force One carries the commander-in-chief, but he is not in command of the plane.
  • (15) Parker, meanwhile, had wheedled $50,000 from investors, and the pair moved to California.
  • (16) On stage, it had added significantly to his air of menace and deceit; he was treating the beaming Mrs W with wheedling charm while another side of his face was twitching with twisted insincerity.
  • (17) We felt that Lego forfeited its responsibility to children by allowing Shell to wheedle its way into playtime and normalise its brand for the next generation.
  • (18) That intervention was almost certainly the result of wheedling by the FA, who seem so much more comfortable with this sort of provenly ineffectual princery than with being held democratically to account.
  • (19) Now, they get their celebrity fix from gossip mags, such as Heat and Reveal, which pull celebrities apart like a gaggle of playground bullies, wheedling out their secrets and laughing at their fashion fails, while for aspirational lifestyle, fashion, and serious features, they will buy Elle, Grazia or Instyle – magazines that appear to respect their emotional maturity and purchasing power.
  • (20) In an attempt to wheedle a confession from the lonely Stagg, she said he would win her heart only if he would admit to sharing her love of Satanism and child murder.