importunate

Speech parts

1. importunate - Adjective

2. importunate - Verb

3. importunate - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Troublesomely urgent; unreasonably solicitous; overpressing in request or demand; urgent; teasing; as, an impotunate petitioner, curiosity.

Hard to be borne; unendurable.

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Examples

We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors. Malcolm de Chazal

The ever importunate murmur, "Dramatize it, dramatize it!" Henry James

At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action. Walter Pater

Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone. Phyllis McGinley

Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever. Nicolas Chamfort

Verily, the soul is content when that which it desires is learned, and becomes importunate in its pursuit when it is spurned. Usama ibn Munqidh

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