pleadingly
In imploring manner
Pleadingly describes doing something in a way that begs or implores, conveying urgent emotional appeal.
It typically modifies verbs of communication or looking: She stared at him pleadingly, He asked pleadingly for one more chance.
The adverb suggests vulnerability and earnest desire, often employed when someone has little power and must rely on another's mercy or goodwill.
Earnest, urgent request
- appealFormal review request
- petitionFormal written appeal
- prayerAddress to deity
- beseechingUrgently pleading for something
imploring · supplicant · intercession · solicitation · invocation · request · beseechingly · imploringly
With deep sincerity
- sincerelyWith genuine feeling
- ferventlyWith intense passionate feeling
- desperatelyWith urgent intensity
- urgentlyWith pressing immediacy
passionately · insistently · persistently · coaxingly · wheedlingly · persuasively · submissively · deferentially
Earnest desperate requesting
- desperateDriven by urgent need
- franticWildly anxious or desperate
- anguishedSeverely emotionally distressed
- helplessUnable to act independently
distressed · imploring · beseeching · dire · urgent · hopeless · vulnerable · stricken
entreaty
Earnest, urgent request
beseeching · imploring · supplicant · intercession · solicitation · invocation · request · beseechingly · imploringly · appealingly
earnestly
With deep sincerity
- sincerelyWith genuine feeling
- ferventlyWith intense passionate feeling
- desperatelyWith urgent intensity
urgently · passionately · insistently · persistently · coaxingly · wheedlingly · persuasively · submissively · deferentially · humbly
begging
Earnest desperate requesting
- desperateDriven by urgent need
- franticWildly anxious or desperate
- anguishedSeverely emotionally distressed
helpless · distressed · imploring · beseeching · dire · urgent · hopeless · vulnerable · stricken · tormented
wide-eyed
Showing naive amazement
sorrowful · wistful · pained · anguished · quivering · trembling · outstretched · clasped · kneeling · prostrate
pleadinglycommandingly
With authoritative presence
demandingly · authoritatively · imperiously · domineeringly · dictatorially
pleadinglyindifferently
Without preference or concern
coldly · dismissively · haughtily · arrogantly · contemptuously
- pleading the FifthRefusing to testify constitutionally
- special pleadingDemanding unjustified exceptions