plead
"Don't make a sound," he whispered pleadingly.
"Please don't do this", Matt said quietly, almost pleadingly.
The mothers look pleadingly at the aid worker, but he keeps his eyes on his clipboard, working out which children are sick enough to eat today.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Making appeals & requests
adjuration
appellate
apply for something
apply to
ask a lot
besiege
car wash
cry
demand
entreat
imploringly
importunately
importunity
invite
invocation
leech
pester
push
scrounge
ticket

Examples of pleadingly

pleadingly
She looked at me pleadingly.
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Once more the corners of her lips lifted pleadingly, arched with guileful, provocative sweetness.
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She held out her arms to him pleadingly.
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He dared, therefore, to raise his eyes to those of the king, and to look pleadingly at him.
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But even as he looked, pleadingly, anxiously, into her upturned face, the light of forgiveness had already illumined the gentle, tear dimmed eyes.
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Her dark eyes looked down upon him pleadingly, and her fine face showed an emotion greater than her limited vocabulary could express in words.
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Though he had released her hands, she now stretched them out toward him pleadingly.
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But her overwrought nerves were not easily controlled, and he knelt beside her, speaking soothingly and pleadingly.
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The blue eyes look at her pleadingly, with a half-smile in them.
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Then she lifts her eyes to his face pleadingly.
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Instantly her face flushed crimson, she trembled visibly, and her eyes were lifted pleadingly to his.
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He dropped to his knees with a bellow of fright, and pleadingly threw up his hands.
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She took his hand again, and, leaning against him, smiled pleadingly into his face.
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She spoke rapidly and pleadingly, looked entreatingly into his face.
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He was in great distress of mind and body, and asked me most pleadingly to render him some assistance.
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