(n.) One who pleads; one who argues for or against; an advotate.
(n.) One who draws up or forms pleas; the draughtsman of pleas or pleadings in the widest sense; as, a special pleader.
Example Sentences:
Pleaser
Definition:
(n.) One who pleases or gratifies.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unlike Osborne's previous crowd-pleaser on inheritance tax, it even helps low earners most.
(2) However, clever Miss Bennet was not an automatic crowd-pleaser on her first outings.
(3) Perhaps better to enjoy Wilder for what he is – a flawed crowd-pleaser with one-punch knockout power who is never in a bad fight – than what he is not.
(4) For the relatively modest price tag of £100 each, and with a serious public health agenda, baby boxes are a crowd-pleaser of such magnitude that one sensed she could have ditched the rest of the manifesto and still come out on top.
(5) That will be one of the few crowd-pleasers in the budget and laced with a touch of revenge.
(6) It was created by David Blunkett's Home Office in the 2003 Criminal Justice Act to deal with violent and sexual offenders and was potentially a crowd-pleaser – remember "tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime"?
(7) It was a noisy, somewhat relentless event, that had some crowd-pleasers, some interesting smaller projects and a few glimpses at what the big publishers are pulling out of the development bag for the second wave of next-gen consoles (well, they're current-gen now, of course, but that is way too confusing).
(8) A tabloid crowd-pleaser, shorthand for assault on the welfare state with cuts taking up to 80% of the burden, extra taxes only 20%.
(9) Clement is Vladislav, an 862-year-old ladykiller, Waititi is Viago, a 379-year-old people-pleaser, and they’re joined by Petyr (Ben Fransham), an 8,000-year-old Nosferatu-like misanthropist and Deacon (Jonathan Brugh), an ex-Nazi vampire who, at just 183 years of age, is a bit gauche.
(10) She's a consummate crowd pleaser, at one point even changing into a union jack T-shirt, as if trying to make friends with her location.
(11) The National Portrait Gallery is on a mission to rescue the painter John Singer Sargent from the consequences of his own brilliance, the dazzling, lightning-quick technique that saw him dismissed for generations after his death as a clever crowd-pleaser who churned out society portraits.
(12) This decision is a crowd-pleaser, which will not help renters in the long term.
(13) And when his crowd-pleaser pleased the critics, he saw a lesson in it.
(14) A scurrying, muscular figure, Girolami was a bit more of a crowd-pleaser.
(15) Facing the De Young Museum across the park's open-air music concourse, the Academy of Sciences has been an instant crowd-pleaser.
(16) Fast-forward 18 months and Opera North offer me the chance to direct Georges Bizet's Carmen – the musical opposite of Birtwistle, the very definition of a classic, a crowd-pleaser, a war horse.
(17) Ukip is led by the widely mistrusted Nigel Farage, a lazy crowd-pleaser who cannot work with his own colleagues, has always run away from any whiff of responsibility and disowns any statement that turns out to be unpopular, including his own.
(18) It comes just a few days after Alistair Darling's budget – which was notably short on tax-and-spend doorstep pleasers – and on the morning of the chancellors' debate on television.
(19) It's a unique concoction, and always a crowd pleaser!
(20) Theatrical versions of Hollywood crowd-pleasers are, of course, nothing new: the West End is awash with Flashdance and its ilk.