- appealing, imploring, importunate, pleading - expressing earnest entreaty; "the appealing and frightened look worn by an injured dog"; "she holds out her hand for money, importunate, insistent"; "a pleading note in her voice"
Antonym: imperative (indirect, via beseeching)
- pleading - (law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding
--1 is a kind of statement
--1 has part: bill of Particulars
--1 has particulars:Derived forms: verb plead4, verb plead3
- plead - appeal or request earnestly; "I pleaded with him to stop"
--1 is one way to appeal, invoke
Sample sentence:
They plead to move
- plead - offer as an excuse or plea; "She was pleading insanity"
--2 is one way to apologize, apologise, excuse, justify, rationalize, rationalise
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s Adjective
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- plead - enter a plea, as in courts of law; "She pleaded not guilty"
--3 is one way to declare
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun pleading1
Somebody ----s Adjective
- plead - make an allegation in an action or other legal proceeding, especially answer the previous pleading of the other party by denying facts therein stated or by alleging new facts
--4 is one way to allege, aver, say
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun pleader1, noun pleading1
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- plead - offer as an excuse or plea; "She was pleading insanity"