Both Uses of
appeal
in
The Glass Castle
- Neither putting on makeup nor wearing a sheet had much appeal for me, so I played football with the boys, who would waive their guys-only rule and let me join a team if they were short a player.
p. 159.4 *appeal = attraction
- This appealed to me mightily.
p. 204.7appealed = was attractive
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