beseeching
adjective
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Definition of beseeching
: expressing or marked by earnest pleading or entreaty The wretched young man arose, and with a last beseeching glance at us walked from the room.— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Synonyms
entreating, imploring, pleading, prayerful, soliciting, suppliant, supplicant, supplicating, supplicatory
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