pleadingly

adv

pleadingly

adv

Etymology From pleading + -ly.

1

In a pleading manner; with pleas.

  • She looked from one to another pleadingly.1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 15, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 194:

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