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Synonyms for pleading
ˈpli dɪŋplead·ing

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Princeton's WordNet2.3 / 3 votes

  1. pleadingadjective

    (law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding

  2. beseeching, pleading, imploringadjective

    begging

    Synonyms:
    beseeching, imploring

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  1. List of paraphrases for "pleading":

    pleadings, litigator

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  1. Clarence Darrow:

    I am pleading for the future; I am pleading for a time when hatred and cruelty will not control the hearts of men. When we can learn by, reason and judgment and understanding and faith that all life is worth saving, and that mercy is the highest attribute of man. Closing argument in Leopold-Loeb trial,

  2. Eva Longoria:

    Huffman's lawyers argued that the sentencing guidelines in those cases were much higher and reserved for the mastermind of schemes, not mere participants. Prosecutors, meanwhile, had argued that universities and testing companies were the victims of the schemes, and the amount that parents paid should correspond to the penalties' severity.But US Probation and Pretrial Services, which prepares pre-sentence investigation reports for each defendant, has argued overall, that the universities and testing companies suffered no monetary harm, and the price of the parents' bribes is therefore not relevant to any sentences. Actress Felicity Huffman loved ones wrote letters of support to the judgeMacy and other loved ones submitted letters to Judge Indira Talwani on Huffman's behalf, pleading for leniency. Each letter outlined Huffman's loyalty and commitment to the writer — an attempt to show Actress Felicity Huffman role in the admissions scam was an outlier in Actress Felicity Huffman life. Macy also shed some light on the immediate aftermath of Huffman's early morning arrest by the FBI in March.Two days after the arrest, Macy wrote, their eldest daughter was headed for an audition at a school she had her heart set on — one that didn't require SAT scores. But when Actress Felicity Huffman got off the plane, the school emailed Actress Felicity Huffman, formally rescinding its audition invitation because of the scandal. Eva Longoria and other celebrities write letters of support for actress Felicity Huffman ahead of Eva Longoria sentencingMacy wrote Eva Longoria and other celebrities daughter.

  3. Randolph Lee:

    His primary motive in pleading guilty today was to spare the children who would testify the trauma (and) the embarrassment.

  4. Judy Norton:

    It was really the producers who went out and created a grassroots campaign, like taking out ads and doing interviews in the heartland, in Middle America, where we really found our audience, just really kind of pleading with people to watch the show and embrace it, she added. And that was really the audience that formed the core… Those are our really loyal fans that continue to watch the show in reruns.

  5. Reid Elkus:

    My client is pleading not guilty and like any other person that is accused of a crime, my client is presumed innocent, and as a result of that presumption, our firm will be rigorously and zealously defending Officer Haubert.


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