Having appeal; attractive.
Her housecoat had fallen open. She was wearing only panties and bra, which did nothing to make her scrawny, wrinkled body appealing.
present participle and gerund of appeal
The act of making an appeal.
The fair creature abandoned her position, and in the midst of her bitter tears and pathetic appealings, which my sense of duty alone enabled me to resist, I bore my prisoner off.
By surface analysis, appeal + -ing.
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