Synonyms of entreaties

entreaties

noun

plural of entreaty

as in pleas

an earnest request

our entreaties to give us another few minutes to answer the test questions fell on deaf ears

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pleas
• appeals
• prayers
• petitions
• pleadings
• cries
• desires
• supplications
• solicitations
• suits
• demands
• adjurations
• applications
• conjurations
• calls
• suppliances
• requisitions
• insistences
• claims

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of entreaties

These are the people who will likely be most amenable to negotiations or personal entreaties. — Clio Chang, Curbed, 17 June 2026

Zegna came to Malibu to make entreaties to the American fashion market with its colorful, louche new wares. — Dave Schilling contributing follow, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2026

But Epstein’s entreaties to Keita were not limited to business. — Miami Herald, 29 Apr. 2026

On the demand of the Commons, Suffolk is exiled for his part in Gloucester’s death despite the queen’s entreaties to the king. — Gitanjali Roy, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Apr. 2026

Other Democrats have been more cautious in their approach to similar entreaties. — Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2026

Sununu’s dad served as governor, as did his brother Chris, who refused entreaties to run in the party’s Senate races. — Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 27 Mar. 2026

This kind of boosterism—no less evident in Bernard Lewis’s highbrow argument in The New Yorker that Muslims fear modernity than in Niall Ferguson’s entreaties for the Bush Administration to resume the British Empire’s task of civilizing the natives—always seemed bafflingly sterile to me. — Christine Smallwood, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026

Samsung and Amazon will team up to bring interactive technology from Amazon to Samsung TV Plus, giving users the opportunity to shop from Amazon via their remote control or respond to other entreaties from advertisers. — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 24 Mar. 2026