importunity
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Her looks and ability soon bring success and a suitor, a white, amiable young financier whose importunity will not hear honest Mimi's tragic secret.
From Time Magazine Archive
Is the almost whimsical Morrow importunity an ideal substitute for angry notes and troops along the border?
From Time Magazine Archive
Here the gentlemen interposed with earnest petitions to be further enlightened on these two last-named points; but they got only blushes, ejaculations, tremors, and titters, in return for their importunity.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
This the Lady Ursula steadily refused; and she was soon after relieved from all importunity, by the death of her father.
From Delusion, or The Witch of New England by Lee, Eliza Buckminster
You know they are generally tumultuous, refractory, full of discontent and murmuring, capricious in demanding favors, not long satisfied with present concessions, and not seldom abusing them by restless importunity for more.
From History of Halifax City by Akins, Thomas B.
She does this while offering him no emotional response to his importunities whatsoever.
From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2024
In her footsteps, women had to take the next move as resisters of unwarranted prejudice: "Sue for your rights and privileges. Know the reason that you cannot attain them. Weary them with your importunities."
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2020
You can turn off your devices but you cannot turn off the knowledge that they are receiving the world’s importunities.
From Time ● Feb. 26, 2015
Only with some difficulty did the world traveler extricate himself from their importunities, but he emerged with wit unblunted.
From Time Magazine Archive
His master would have none of it; but scolded him for his importunities.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Vocabulary lists containing importunity
"The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin
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"The Story of an Hour"
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