[
UK
/plˈiːd/
]
[ US /ˈpɫid/ ]
[ US /ˈpɫid/ ]
VERB
-
appeal or request earnestly
I pleaded with him to stop -
enter a plea, as in courts of law
She pleaded not guilty - make an allegation in an action or other legal proceeding, especially answer the previous pleading of the other party by denying facts therein stated or by alleging new facts
-
offer as an excuse or plea
She was pleading insanity
How To Use plead In A Sentence
- He was in awe of China and pleaded that if India should progress it should learn a lesson or two from the communist regime.
- A 35-year-old Briton languishing in a Bangkok jail under sentence of death for a crime he says he did not commit is planning to protest his innocence by refusing to plead for a royal pardon.
- Just getting anyone in the area to tell the platoon where the former mukhtar lived had taken three months of pleading, and after several false leads that day, the soldiers had found him. The Coming Normalcy?
- A teenager, scarred for life when she was bottled in the face in a nightclub row, is pleading for witnesses to come forward.
- So they plead with her to give them a taste of the flavored milk.
- Kimmel pleaded with the network to get this done.
- The obscurity of the pleading which is, if I may so with respect to the drafter of it, exceedingly clever, because the pleading is in terms always of a duty of care to do something and it is there the elision of two very separate ideas.
- The city now seeks to amend the claim to plead fraudulent misrepresentation and deceit and to seek punitive damages.
- He intends to plead not guilty, according to his lawyer, Plato Cacheris, who characterized his client as emotionally distraught.
- The City had done a serious effort to take out beggars from the streets, yet the very cold streets were lined with immobile figures frozen in submissive, pleading positions. Why Does Homelessness Persist in Rich Liberal Cities?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty