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

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

When an importunate caller suggested that there was a need for PayPal for ordinary Internet transactions, the company single-mindedly spurned him.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2013

Surprising how much like a small, begging child she makes me feel, simply by her scowl, her stolidity; how importunate and whiny.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood