Definition of "importunate" []

• Troublesomely urgent or persistent in requesting; pressingly entreating: an importunate job seeker. (adjective)

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• "But I explained, in my purest Tuscan, that I was not of the ordinary kind of importunate tourist."
• "The word "importunate" has the signification of a wearisome repetition of a request, a constant asking, impossible to satisfy."
• "'importunate' in asking again for my two Sophocles Abstracts, you must know that such importunity cannot but be grateful."