Definition of "pleadingly" [plead•ing•ly]

• In an pleading manner; with pleas. (adverb)

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• ""Oh, grandpa!" said the little girl, laying one hand again pleadingly on his knee, "I didn't mean – I mean – I was speaking in general – I wasn't thinking of myself in particular.""
• "Reaching into her jacket and mouthing a single word pleadingly into his faceplate."
• "Sometimes, when they had finished the dishes, Carol, intent on Connie's story, stood patiently rubbing the dish pan a hundred, a thousand times, until David would call pleadingly, "Girls, come out here and talk.""