plead
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definition
verb
they pleaded with Carol to come home again
make an emotional appeal.
using cheap melodrama to plead the case for three prisoners
present and argue for (a position), especially in court or in another public context.
example
The unhappy partner had to petition the legislature or court to 'plead' his or her case.
The city now seeks to amend the claim to 'plead' fraudulent misrepresentation and deceit and to seek punitive damages.
My mother particularly thought I'd make a very good barrister, and you know, do I think I could 'plead' a case in court?
Phil gets to live on beyond this, and with his history of rather public instability, he is pretty well set up to 'plead' insanity.
The death penalty is not that often given to these types of people because at the trial, the defendant will 'plead' insanity and claim that they were not in control of their actions at the time that they committed the crime.
In our universities, students justifiably 'plead' poverty and the recommendations of the Cubie inquiry have been completely ignored.
So if the excisable good in question were alleged to be brandy, how would the pleader 'plead' the nature of those goods?
The couple went to court in October to 'plead' poverty and beg for financial mercy.
In the courtroom, the German judge read the charges and asked me in which court I wished to 'plead' my case: German or American.
It is interesting to note, lest anyone should 'plead' passage of time, that the court stipulated that sentences were to run from February 4, 1999.
I notice that the Commonwealth, by its defence, does not 'plead' any statute of limitations.
They continually 'plead' poverty, yet when it comes to dishing out bonuses, they are good to their own.
But the various cities and counties have continued to 'plead' poverty in the hope of receiving aid from central government.
The Plaintiff did not 'plead' from an employment law perspective, that the employment contract had been breached, or that the Plaintiff had been fired without cause.
If she wants to 'plead' good reason on this occasion, she also needs to apologise.
So there was no voice strong enough to 'plead' their case.
As counsel for the Bank has pointed out, the Statement of Defence does not 'plead' unconscionability.
How can one 'plead' ignorance in the presence of this massive and continuous universal call?
A court should only grant a motion for particulars where they are necessary for the moving party to 'plead' and the particulars are not within the knowledge of the moving party.
In return, the unions agreed to 'plead' the claim in the arbitration tribunal, tying their members to whatever decision is handed down.
the idea that in public relations work someone is paid to 'plead' a special case is disliked
When he saw Monica's car, he'd flag it down, 'plead' engine trouble and ask if Corbett could drive him.
I thought you had conceded earlier that as originally framed, it would not have been appropriate to expect the accused to 'plead' guilty to that charge.
using cheap melodrama to 'plead' the case for three prisoners
It exploded as he 'pleaded' with police to diffuse it.
He told me that he was getting divorced from his wife and 'pleaded' with me to go away with him.
Her beautiful hazel eyes gazed 'pleadingly' into his.
Meanwhile, a Washington Post editorial was fuming that Congress ‘caved in to the special 'pleaders' .’
It is an attractive piece of special pleading - if you are the special 'pleader' .
But Mr Brown and his peers cannot find comfortable haven in 'pleading' helplessness in the face of a fractured infrastructure.
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