Words and phrases that have a meaning related to pleading: (180 results)
Often used in the same context:
begging, imploring, beseeching, urging, asking, requesting, exhorting, crying, arguing, whimpering, seeking, petitioning, clamoring, appealed, entreating, pledging, praying, vowing, sobbing, refusing, weeping, prodding, assaulting, berating, demanded, apologizing, advocating, groveling, importuning, pestering, insisting, telling, badgering, whining, complaining, admonished, calling, lamenting, persuade, reminding, resisting, wheedling, wanting, screaming, starving, remonstrating, bleating, spurning, deserting, promised, bail, chastising, agreeing, hearing, coaxing, wishing, seeming, scrabbling, wailing, pining, lobbied, muttering, denying, despairing, hounding, professing, instructing, moaning, testifying, pressuring, ordered, convince, beckoning, scolding, trembling, bemoaning, ranting, longing, wronging, intercede, campaigning, saying, jailed, blubbering, gasping, summoned, mumbling, uttering, denouncing, goading, bereaving, relenting, cursing, scrambling, declaring, sentencing, thanking, assuring, heeding, chiding, thirsting, hungering, pleadings, pleas, plea, entreaty, supplication, appeals, entreaties, appeal, exhortation, interrogation, petition, petitions, indictment, solicitation, supplications, contention, protestation, bidding, complaint, colorado, consent, geography, indiana, iowa, kentucky, limitation, literature, maryland, notice, rome, virginia, york, 14.1, 1967, 3.2, 4.2, 65, 91, accommodating
More specific:
affirmative pleading, alternative pleading, answer, charge, defective pleading, demurrer, pleading in the alternative, rebuttal, rebutter, rejoinder, replication, special pleading, surrebuttal, surrebutter, surrejoinder
Appears in the definition of:
., advocacy, affirmative pleading, alternative pleading, answer, charge, complaint, defective pleading, demurrer, plead, pleading in the alternative, rebuttal, rebutter, rejoinder, replication, special pleading, surrebuttal, surrebutter, surrejoinder, verify
More general:
allegation, allegement
Synonyms:
Also try:appealing, importunate
— Adjectives for pleading: special, much, responsive, earnest, passionate, common, eloquent, criminal, original, desperate, supplemental, more...
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