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insistent Adjective 1. making continual and persistent demands 2. demanding attention: the chirruping of an insistent bird insistence n
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insistent adjective 1. emphatic, persistent, demanding, pressing, dogged, urgent, forceful, persevering, unrelenting, peremptory, importunate, exigent Translations insistent [ɪnˈsɪstənt] insist adj (determined) → hartnäckig; (continual) → andauernd, penetrant (pej) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| HE had a dreamy, far-away look in his eyes, and his sad, insistent voice, gentle-spoken as a maid's, seemed the placid embodiment of some deep-seated melancholy. The hard insistent thing in Jesse Bentley that had kept the people in the house silent and timid and that had never been dispelled by the presence of the girl Louise was ap- parently swept away by the coming of the boy. Cutter had been so insistent in regard to these details that now she felt uncomfortable about staying there alone. |
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