pleading
plead-ing
adjective
Showing an earnest, emotional, or desperate appeal for something.
"She gave him a pleading look."
noun
A formal statement of a party's case in a court of law.
"The solicitor filed the pleading."
Thesaurus
Synonyms: precative, beseeching, imploring, supplicant, petitionary, supplicatory, mendicant, suppliant, precatory, importunate, adjuratory
Antonyms: imperative