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importunate

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im·por·tu·nate  (m-pôrch-nt)
adj.
Troublesomely urgent or persistent in requesting; pressingly entreating: an importunate job seeker.
im·portu·nate·ly adv.
im·portu·nate·ness n.
importunate [ɪmˈpɔːtjʊnɪt]
adj
1. persistent or demanding; insistent
2. Rare troublesome; annoying
importunately  adv
importunateness  n
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Adj.1.importunate - expressing earnest entreaty; "an importunate job applicant"
beseeching, imploring, pleading - begging
importunate
adjective (Formal) persistent, demanding, pressing, dogged, earnest, troublesome, insistent, solicitous, clamorous, exigent, pertinacious, clamant His secretary shielded him from importunate visitors.
Translations
importunate [ɪmˈpɔːtjʊnɪt] ADJ [demand] → importuno; [person] → pertinaz
importunate
adj → aufdringlich; salesman also, creditor, demand → hartnäckig, beharrlich
importunate [ɪmˈpɔːtjʊnɪt] adj (frm) → importuno/a
importunate [ɪmˈpɔːtjʊnɪt] adj (frm) → importuno/a


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The King, startled at this discourse, denied that he had given any such orders, and was very importunate to know the author of our intelligence, but finding me determined not to discover him, he sent me away with a promise that for the future we should be furnished with everything we wanted, and indeed that same day we bought three goats for about a crown, and some honey, and found ourselves better treated than before.
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At last the feeling on my side became so importunate that I could no longer keep silence.
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During this interval she had become a less vivid and importunate image, receding from his foreground as May Welland resumed her rightful place in it.
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