pleader

The reserved youth grew into a low-key politician, never much good as a backslapper or a special pleader.

Special pleaders lobby Washington to define their income as lightly taxed capital gains, regardless of how arbitrary that might be in real-world economic terms, or how much complexity the code accumulates.

Members on both sides of the dais lamented that their opposites would not reconsider, though none of the pleaders really expected any change.

Members on both sides of the dais lamented that their opposites would not reconsider, although none of the pleaders really expected any change.

Other hardcore Nats fans — the armchair scorekeepers, the get-there-for-batting-practice crowd, the pleaders for toss-up balls — have been simultaneously fuming and metaphorically scrounging for spare change in the couch.