Beg
Beg verb - To make a request to (someone) in an earnest or urgent manner.
Prefer
Prefer verb - To show partiality toward.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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When the local lord asks if they want to beg, Mugen invokes the trope by saying he'd prefer the blade to bowing down to him.
Source: Defiant to the End - But after the boy starts bullying the babies and manipulating them to do his bidding, they realize they prefer being bossed around by Angelica and they beg her to rescue them.
Source: Better the Devil You Know - Despite being a member of a race of Blood Knights who would actually prefer death when defeated in battle than live with the shame of losing, he has the nerve to beg his younger, weaker (at the time) brother to let him go, only to backstab him when freed.
Source: Dirty Coward
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