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

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

“You’re looking especially lovely today, sweetheart,” shouts James Corden’s importunate costermonger from his market stall during The Lady in the Van.

From The Guardian • Nov. 5, 2015

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

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