wheedler

From wheedle + -er.

wheedler (plural wheedlers)

1. One who wheedles; a sweet talker.
   • 1886, Gustave Flaubert, chapter VIII, in Eleanor Marx-Aveling, transl., Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners […], London: Vizetelly & Co., […], →OCLC, part II, pages 148–149:

     Then the landlady began telling him this story, that she had heard from Theodore, Monsieur Guillaumin's servant, and although she destested Tellier, she blamed Lheureux. He was “a wheedler, a sneak.”