All 8 Uses of
appeal
in
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Bailey and I sloshed down twilight trails to the pig pens, and standing on the first fence rungs we poured down the unappealing concoctions to our grateful hogs.†
p. 17.2 *unappealing = not attractive or desirablestandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unappealing means not and reverses the meaning of appealing. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- His eyes seemed to hold me with a mixture of threats and appeal.†
p. 12.3 *
- The fact that I had arrived at my desired destination by lies made it less appealing to me.†
p. 85.7
- She appealed to me because she was like people I had never met personally.†
p. 95.1
- It made no difference to him that she was almost a woman, or possibly it was just that difference which made her so appealing.†
p. 150.3
- This belief appeals particularly to one who is unable to compete legally with his fellow citizens.†
p. 225.4
- Later, my room had all the cheeriness of a dungeon and the appeal of a tomb.†
p. 264.0
- The Negro organizations to whom I appealed for support bounced me back and forth like a shuttlecock on a badminton court.†
p. 268.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(appeal as in: appealed for help) a request or the act of asking -- sometimes specifically for help or that a decision be overturned
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(2)
(appeal as in: appeals to youthful tastes) attractiveness or desirability; or to be attractive or desirable