suppliantly

In pleading manner

In a manner expressing humble pleading or earnest entreaty.

Someone who acts suppliantly makes requests with deference and submission, often from a position of need: She looked up suppliantly, hoping for forgiveness.

The word suggests the posture of a supplicant—beseeching rather than demanding.

beseeching

imploring

Urgently requesting with emotion

begging · appealing · soliciting · praying · invoking · adjuring · importuning · craving · urging · exhorting

humble

meekly

In docile manner

unassumingly · submissively · lowly · reverently · penitently · contritely · self-effacingly · obsequiously · servilely · humbly

earnest

fervently

With intense passionate feeling

intensely · genuinely · eagerly · ardently · insistently · desperately · urgently · imploringly · yearningly · longingly

submissive

yieldingly

In a compliant manner

passively · acquiescently · dutifully · docilely · resignedly · tractably · pliantly · abjectly

Opposites
manner of requesting

suppliantlydemandingly

In an insistent manner

commandingly · imperiously · authoritatively · peremptorily · dictatorially

bearing/posture

suppliantlyarrogantly

With excessive pride

haughtily · proudly · defiantly · imperiously · condescendingly

Family

suppliant, suppliants

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