appealing

an appealing manner; an appealing idea.

police are appealing for information about the incident.

The government is appealing to everyone to save water.

police are appealing for witnesses to the accident.

There are no legal impediments to their appealing against the decision.

The government is appealing to the silent majority to support its foreign policy.

We advocate solving international dispute by negotiation, instead of appealing to arms.

In appealing the case again, you will just be kicking against the pricks.

I find his manner very appealing.

The large salary made their offer even more appealing to him.

He went over the heads of union officials, appealing directly to the workforce.

notices appealing for help were fly-posted around Colchester.

the work showed a deliberate disregard of the more sensuous and immediately appealing aspects of painting.

Economic and administrative arbitrative appeals which are thought to be wrong shall be appealing to court.

By appealing to his better nature, we persuaded him to change his mind.

Lawyerly skills—marshalling evidence, appealing to juries, command of procedure—transfer well to the political stage.

A typewriter is also appealing in its transparency — whack a key, and watch the typebar smack a letter onto a piece of paper.

The clerks and ryots, however, seemed duly impressed, and likewise envious, as though deploring their parents' omission to endow them with so splendid a means of appealing to the Zamindar.

A programming strategy in which a station or network schedules material appealing to an audience other than the competition. Independents often counterprogram local news with entertainment.