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importunate VB

importunate

importunate ADJ

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importunate

importunate

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English
He sought patronage, and was bold and importunate.
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The first suggests long days of near obsequiousness, a human being at the beck and call of the importunate snap of the fat, beringed finger.
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Distinguishing oneself by presenting one's ideas (even good ideas) to important people would have been considered importunate and rude.
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Charmingly and creepily, the neighbour accepts the bizarre interloper, like some importunate human tendril that tickles the air with an unlikely capacity to latch on.
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At the base are scientists engaged in the importunate probing of nature's corpus -- say, characterizing the molecular signalling pathways whose activation predisposes cells to become cancerous.
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Occasionally women, who can not bear the pregnant state, make importunate demands for early delivery.
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Let them not be importunate in speaking of money matters to their flocks.
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Whereupon he drew up his chair, and eat a very hearty dinner with his importunate guests.
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Though the object of importunate solicitation, he is himself not in need of anything beyond himself.
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Our instinct to separate ourselves from suffering, to fence off, where we can, the importunate other from our otherwise pleasant lives, is unworthy of us.
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