importunate
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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
In his review in The New York Times, Jon Pareles wrote that the concert was dominated by “hardheaded women and eagerly importunate men in the eternal strivings of young love.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2017
“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
He begged his wife for a few nights’ peace but Lourdes’s peals only became more urgent, her glossy black eyes more importunate.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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