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entreatingly

[en-treet-ing-lee]

adverb

  1. in a way that expresses or resembles an entreaty; pleadingly.



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An old but estranged friend is — noisily, entreatingly — dying of pancreatic cancer.

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“Let me see it” requested the young woman, entreatingly.

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My dear Dinah," said Barrington, entreatingly, "imagine a man as wanting in tact as I am,—and as timid, too, about giving casual offence,—conducting such an inquiry as you committed to my hands.

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Mrs. Villars looked entreatingly at her, and managed, by dint of many signs, to suppress the angry reply which was rising to her lips.

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"Quite," answered Amy, "and will you not say you are too, dearest Mamma?" and she laid her head lovingly on her mother's shoulder, and looked entreatingly in her face.

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