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importunately

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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.
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Adv.1.importunately - in a beseeching manner; "`You must help me,' she said imploringly"


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They would indecently and clamorously interrupt the conversation of their elders, tease them with the most impertinent questions, roughly collar the gentlemen, climb their knees uninvited, hang about their shoulders or rifle their pockets, pull the ladies' gowns, disorder their hair, tumble their collars, and importunately beg for their trinkets.
Not the less, however, came this importunately obtrusive sense of change.
it is Green,' I said, recollecting myself - 'only Green,' and I went on, intending to send somebody else to open it; but the knock was repeated: not loud, and still importunately.
 
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