Grounds
Grounds noun - Your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief.
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Synonyms for Grounds
Plea
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Sadistic Choice: Mizuho, forced to choose between Kei and her career, makes an impassioned plea to be allowed both on humanitarian grounds.
Source: Anime / Please Teacher! - It was Ambrose Bierce that first defined chutzpah as that attitude embodied by a boy who murders his entire family, then makes for a mercy plea in court (for a lighter sentence) on the grounds that he is an orphan.
Source: Refuge In Audacity / Jokes
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