Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an appealing or entreating manner; beseechingly.
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- adverb In an
appealing manner.
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- adverb in an appealing manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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He had a knack for deploying the usual hippie self-absorption in appealingly vacuous ways: “All across the nation, there’s a strange vibration/There’s a whole generation with a new explanation.”
The Other Papa 2007
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He had a knack for deploying the usual hippie self-absorption in appealingly vacuous ways: “All across the nation, there’s a strange vibration/There’s a whole generation with a new explanation.”
The Other Papa 2007
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He had a knack for deploying the usual hippie self-absorption in appealingly vacuous ways: “All across the nation, there’s a strange vibration/There’s a whole generation with a new explanation.”
The Other Papa 2007
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He had a knack for deploying the usual hippie self-absorption in appealingly vacuous ways: “All across the nation, there’s a strange vibration/There’s a whole generation with a new explanation.”
The Other Papa 2007
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We must run a tried-and-true conservative, and one that can express the views of conservatism clearly, succinctly, and appealingly, which is exactly what Reagan did.
Latest Articles 2008
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Each company has a captain who gives each of his soldiers a name that denotes action and can be demonstrated -- beginning with the letter "A" such as appealingly, angrily, etc.
Games For All Occasions Mary E. Blain
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Mr. Morris also appealingly acted the eager young hero, easily duped by enemies who use his own strength against him.
And So the World Ended Heidi Waleson 2012
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It's also one of its most appealingly credible aspects, as is the gritty atmosphere: the subway scenes with their up-close-and-personal contacts with strangers, the cramped tenement that's home to one of the girls.
The Rich, the Bad, the Vengeful Dorothy Rabinowitz 2011
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This sounds appealingly feasible; after all, government wasn't exactly skeletal in 2006.
Responsible plans vs. Republican Study Committee's plans Ruth Marcus 2011
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In a shrewd final chapter set in 2060, Ms. Ward links her appealingly varied cast of characters to a time when books and paintings have been largely supplanted by virtual reality.
In Brief: Fiction Sam Sacks 2012
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