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imploringly

[ im-plawr-ing-lee ]

adverb

  1. in a way that expresses urgent or piteous pleading, as for aid or mercy; beseechingly:

    "No! Don't kill the spider!" gasped my daughter, looking imploringly into my eyes.



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In almost every case, at least one man, woman or child looks out from the penurious scene and stares squarely at the viewer, imploringly.

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So he patiently broke twig after twig till he had made a little hole through which he peeped, saying imploringly, ‘Let me in! Let me in!’

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The dancers, their arms reaching imploringly, move vividly and broadly as if washing the stage with brushstrokes.

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Several times she beseeched the crowd to quieten down, gently at first, imploringly: “It really puts me uptight and I forget the words and I get nervous,” she told them three songs in.

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Rodham replied, imploringly, “I gave him a biography of Reinhold Niebuhr.”

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