pleading
plee ding
- n (law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding
- v appeal or request earnestly
- v offer as an excuse or plea
She was pleading insanity - v enter a plea, as in courts of law
- v 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
- a begging
- Now Moussaoui says he regrets pleading guilty.
- The only thing more stunning than the spectacle of a quivering, hangdog Ohio Governor pleading no contest in August to criminal charges is the fact that he is still in office.
- Ever since he learned about the level of pollution in "Mother," as he calls the Ganges, Mishra, 59, has been squabbling with government authorities and pleading with other temple .