Usually means: Begging with earnest, emotional appeal.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word Pleadingly:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. pleadingly: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pleadingly: Merriam-Webster
  3. pleadingly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pleadingly: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pleadingly: Vocabulary.com
  6. pleadingly: Wordnik
  7. pleadingly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. pleadingly: Wiktionary
  9. Pleadingly, pleadingly: Dictionary.com
  10. Pleadingly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. pleadingly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. pleadingly: Rhymezone
  13. Pleadingly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. pleadingly: FreeDictionary.org
  15. pleadingly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. pleadingly: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pleadingly: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. pleadingly: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pleadingly: Idioms

(Note: See plead as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pleadingly)

▸ adverb:  In a pleading manner; with pleas.

Similar:
imploringly, beseechingly, importunately, entreatingly, prayingly, supplicatingly, suppliantly, beggingly, plaintively, piteously, more...

Types:
guilty, not guilty, no contest, nolo contendere, more...

Phrases:
say pleadingly, look pleadingly, more...

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Similar:
imploringly, beseechingly, importunately, entreatingly, prayingly, supplicatingly, suppliantly, beggingly, plaintively, piteously, more...

Types:
guilty, not guilty, no contest, nolo contendere, more...

Phrases:
say pleadingly, look pleadingly, more...



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