importunate

Example Sentences

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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

Fiennes brings a wonderful maturity and complexity to the role: a jaggedness, a simmering amour propre, a neurotic obsessiveness, an importunate yearning.

From The Guardian • Jan. 28, 2021

Most important, Mr. Green is his old self: arriving anywhere he wants around the beat, gliding or leaping, importunate and reassuring.

From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2018

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

At that point, I felt an importunate tap, almost a punch, on my upper arm, from Charles’ direction.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger