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Appealing

adjective

1.

Able to attract interest or draw favorable attention. "An appealing sense of humor" , "The idea of having enough money to retire at fifty is very appealing"

2.

(of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings. Synonyms: likable, likeable, sympathetic.

Appeal

verb

(past & past part. appealed; pres. part. appealing)

1.

Take a court case to a higher court for review.

2.

Request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection. Synonym: invoke. "Invoke God in times of trouble"

3.

Be attractive to. Synonym: attract. "The beautiful garden attracted many people"

4.

Challenge (a decision).

5.

Cite as an authority; resort to. Synonym: invoke. "I appealed to the law of 1900" , "She invoked an ancient law"

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"Appealing" Quotes from Famous Books

... with that responsibility, sir. I am simply appealing to your generosity. By the way, I understand—I have learned this afternoon, that there exists what may be termed a feud between the boys of Chestnut Hill and those of Chestnut Valley. Have I been ...

— The Flag • Homer Greene

... faculties to wring a sense out of it; and if he was unable to make out the meaning of the words, he at least satisfied himself, both from the intonation of the voices and expression of the faces, that no immediate injury was designed. To the appealing looks which Arundel from time to time directed to him, the ...

— The Knight of the Golden Melice - A Historical Romance • John Turvill Adams

... at all pleased when the lieutenant stepped forward to take his place in the cutter, giving him an envious look when he took his seat in the sternsheets prior to her being lowered down. I, too, cast an appealing glance at Mr Jellaby; and this, fortunately for me, ...

— Crown and Anchor - Under the Pen'ant • John Conroy Hutcheson

... not blue-eyed and appealing. She was large, she was self-assured, and she took possession of the room in an expansive all-pervading sort of way that made Mary feel very small and insignificant. The room itself that heretofore had been so spacious suddenly seemed ...

— The Little Colonel's Chum: Mary Ware • Annie Fellows Johnston

... be "comparatively easy to destroy the Mahdi" if 200 British troops were sent to Wady Halfa, and if the Souakim-Berber route were opened up by Indian-Moslem troops. Failing the adoption of these measures, he asked leave to raise a sum, by appealing to philanthropists, sufficient to pay a small Turkish force and carry on a contest for supremacy with the Mahdi on his own behoof. All these suggestions were more or less supported by Sir Evelyn Baring, who at ...

— The Life of Gordon, Volume II • Demetrius Charles Boulger

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