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beseeching

adjective as in appealing

adjective as in pleading

Strong matches

Weak match

noun as in exhortation

noun as in invocation

noun as in urging

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Example Sentences

“All I want is to see her, while I’m still well,” Yokota said, beseeching the ambassador for continued support toward resolving the problem.

He opened the forum by beseeching the candidates to "raise the bar" — and by comparison to Trump, they managed to do that.

From Salon

Sighing, King directs his eyes upward as if beseeching a witness from on high and politely declines: “I’m not your man.”

U.N. agencies and aid groups are beseeching Israel to permit emergency deliveries of fuel and other supplies into the Gaza Strip.

Holed up inside homes and safe rooms as militants sprayed bullets, torched homes and hurled grenades, they turned in desperation to social media, to journalists and to friends, beseeching the army to save them.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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