entreaty

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So your answer to my entreaty is "no", then?

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Quick take

earnest or urgent request; "an entreaty to stop the fighting"; "an appeal for help"; "an appeal to the public to keep calm"

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noun

earnest or urgent request; "an entreaty to stop the fighting"; "an appeal for help"; "an appeal to the public to keep calm"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for entreaty.

noun

earnest or urgent request; "an entreaty to stop the fighting"; "an appeal for help"; "an appeal to the public to keep calm"

Example sentences

So your answer to my entreaty is "no", then?

Is a sardonic framing, not an ernest entreaty.

At some point google entered into an entreaty with corporate news organizations to drive users towards subscription sites and paying for news.

His entreaty was in response to a post about the Bank of Lebanon ordering foreign currency remittances to paid out in the local currency.

Is this a subtle entreaty to focus the brunt of America's educational efforts on specific ethnic subgroups so that the entire nation can have better results?Instead of blindly downvoting, I really am interested in the point of this statement.

The entreaty was: capital gains would force your grandparents into eating cat food by taxing them twice in their twilight years!There is a grain of truth to that, but for various American-specific reasons, it is difficult to apply a ceiling income level beyond which all capital gains income is treated as plain income.

"I can't code, but if I were, I would like to be productive in something that doesn't require me to make any effort in understanding the problem, please advise"Except that's not what the commenter said, and what the commenter did say is, although glib, not inconsistent with the motivation behind Bernstein's entreaty to just create a boringcc already.