pleaded
Begged for mercy
Pleaded is the past tense and past participle of plead.
Someone who pleaded guilty admitted to a crime in court.
Someone who pleaded for mercy begged for it.
She pleaded with him to stay.
The alternative form pled exists, more common in American English and legal contexts, though pleaded remains standard in formal writing.
Begged earnestly
- beseechedAsked with desperate urgency
- entreatedPleaded with someone
- supplicatedBegged humbly for something
- beggedAsked with great urgency
besought · urged · appealed · petitioned · requested · prayed · adjured · importuned
Disputed verbally
- claimedStated as fact
- maintainedKept in condition
- insistedFirmly declared or demanded
- assertedStated as fact
contended · declared · stated · protested · objected · countered · reasoned · explained
Party facing charges
- guiltyResponsible for wrongdoing
- not guiltyCleared of charges
- innocentFree from moral wrong
- arraignmentCharge-reading court session
court · charges · bargain · testimony · trial · judge · prosecution · defense
With urgent intensity
- franticallyIn desperate haste
- tearfullyWhile shedding tears
- pitifullyIn a wretched manner
- patheticallyIn a pitiful way
urgently · fervently · earnestly · imploringly · beseechingly · plaintively · anxiously · distraught
implored
Begged earnestly
- beseechedAsked with desperate urgency
- entreatedPleaded with someone
- supplicatedBegged humbly for something
begged · besought · urged · appealed · petitioned · requested · prayed · adjured · importuned · exhorted
argued
Disputed verbally
- claimedStated as fact
- maintainedKept in condition
- insistedFirmly declared or demanded
asserted · contended · declared · stated · protested · objected · countered · reasoned · explained · emphasized
defendant
Party facing charges
- guiltyResponsible for wrongdoing
- not guiltyCleared of charges
- innocentFree from moral wrong
arraignment · court · charges · bargain · testimony · trial · judge · prosecution · defense · attorney
desperately
With urgent intensity
- franticallyIn desperate haste
- tearfullyWhile shedding tears
- pitifullyIn a wretched manner
pathetically · urgently · fervently · earnestly · imploringly · beseechingly · plaintively · anxiously · distraught · anguished
- pleads the fifthClaims constitutional silence right
- pleading the FifthRefusing to testify constitutionally
- pleaded the FifthExercised self-incrimination protection
- special pleadingDemanding unjustified exceptions