importunate

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The number, a duet for Victoria and Jonquil, doesn’t make importunate emotional demands and is all the more poignant for its restraint.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2025

For Thesiger and Lawrence, as for the Desert Fathers who founded Christian monasticism in third-century Egypt, the desert promised sanctuary not just from society but from the importunate, unclean body.

From The Guardian • Jun. 16, 2018

In his review in The New York Times, Jon Pareles wrote that the concert was dominated by “hardheaded women and eagerly importunate men in the eternal strivings of young love.”

From New York Times • Dec. 14, 2017

And maybe this is just me, but I preferred the Kermit/Miss Piggy relationship in its latency phase, when the importunate Piggy only occasionally bothered the reluctant frog with baby talk and kissy noises.

From Slate • Mar. 19, 2014

He begged his wife for a few nights’ peace but Lourdes’s peals only became more urgent, her glossy black eyes more importunate.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García