Sentence example with the word 'importunity'

importunity

blandishment, cajolement, coaxing, dunning, importunacy, insistence, persistence, pertinacity, plaguing, pressing, pressure, urgency, wheedling

Definition n. insistent solicitation and entreaty

Last update: September 3, 2015


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But their importunity made a hermitage in Paris impossible; a graceless friend even surprised the philosopher in bed at eleven in the morning meditating and taking notes.   [Please select]

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Were she to go to her aunt's she would be exposed to importunity on her husband's behalf from Mrs.   [Please select]

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Importunity without an Army and a Navy behind it is not effective--especially when there is no wind.   [Please select]

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I have run away from home partly to escape the importunity of these little wretches.   [Please select]

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Howbeit, and to be quit of your importunity, I will once more humour you.   [Please select]

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His companion returned to the house, and by his importunity and significant gestures induced his master to follow him.   [Please select]

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Perceiving any importunity altogether vain, I crossed my hands, submitting humbly to whatever disposition they might please to make of me.   [Please select]

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Lily's smile again flowed into a slight laugh: her friend's importunity was beginning to strike her as irrelevant.   [Please select]

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Clara came to me just now, and I had much trouble, and was compelled to be harsh, to get rid of her importunity.   [Please select]

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"My brother, at the importunity of his friends, and for the good of the county, consented to stand against this pet of Jefferson's, this--this _vaurien_ Lewis Rand."   [Please select]

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