Definition of "pleadings" [plead•ings]

• Plural form of pleading. (noun)

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• "He ignored the pleadings from the Asian community."
• "Kate Kendall, Executive Director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, in an interview noted, "The Attorney General is charged with defending the Constitution and, in his role, he is uniquely positioned to say what he said in his pleadings, which is that Prop 8 is so fundamentally counter to the most basic understanding of how the Constitution operates that it simply can't be upheld as a proper amendment.""
• "We could all get a good laugh when the worthless coward begs for his life, the same way Karla Faye Tucker did while bush was governor of texas and thought her pleadings were a laugh riot."