pleading

Definitions

The action of making an emotional or earnest appeal to someone.

A formal statement presented to a court of law by or on behalf of a party to a case.

Examples

She looked at him with pleading eyes, hoping he would change his mind.

The lawyer spent hours pleading his client's case before the jury.

He could hear the faint sound of someone pleading for help in the distance.

Synonyms

beseeching imploring entreating supplicating begging soliciting appealing

Antonyms

demanding commanding insistent imperious assertive indifferent unmoved