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importunate

[im-pawr-chuh-nit] / ɪmˈpɔr tʃə nɪt /


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Importunate telegrams flashed from the President's Palace to Brer Briand at Geneva begging him to become Premier for the twelfth time.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Importunate?" asked K. "Yes," said the lawyer, laughing as he did so, had a fit of coughing and then, once it had passed, began to laugh again.

From The Trial by Wyllie, David

It is these that were there--three of the goodly men of science of the Ulaid, to wit, Catbad the right-wonderful Druid, and Aiterni the Importunate, and Amargin the man of science and art.

From Ireland, Historic and Picturesque by Johnston, Charles

Importunate clients, who would make appointments at unseasonable hours and would keep to them, might confide in the partner, though they would not in the clerk. 

From A Dark Night's Work by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn

But let me eat, comfortless as I am, Uninterrupted; for no call is loud As that of hunger in the ears of man; Importunate, unreas’nable, it constrains His notice, more than all his woes beside.

From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William




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