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insistent

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1. insistent - Adjective

2. insistent - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Standing or resting on something; as, an insistent wall.

Insisting; persistent; persevering.

See Incumbent.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him. Laozi

It was the time of year, the time of day, for a small insistent sadness to pass into the texture of things. Dusk, silence, iron chill. Something lonely in the bone. Don DeLillo

While some mothers sing lullabies to their children, my mother read me poetry. And to this day, I associate my strongest and most insistent feelings with words lyrically organized on a page. Masiela Lusha

The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happen unless you make tax concessions, which they won't. Peter Maxwell Davies

They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact, as people will when their desires become words. William Faulkner

The accounts that history presents have to be paid. Past has to be reconciled with present in the life of a nation. History is an insistent force: the past is what put us where we are. the past cannot be put behind until it is settled with. William Pfaff

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