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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
importune .
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Examples
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An impertinent white newsboy occupies two seats at the end of the car and importunes you to the point of rage to buy cheap candy, Coco-Cola, and worthless, if not vulgar, books.
DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004
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So here we have the government al ready paying for 65% of a project that doesn ' t even meet its normal cost-benefit test, and then the White House has to referee when one of the largest corporations in the world GE importunes the Administration to move faster by threatening to find a private financial substitute like any other business.
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It was a bit like that gag when a beggar importunes Harpo Marx for the price of a cup of coffee, and Harpo reaches into his coat and produces a cup of coffee.
It *is* heroin, right? amuchmoreexotic 2008
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Still, in the pain of his illness, he finds a bright side, “whatever I had failed to do to make myself familiar with death and reconciled to it that illness will do for me: for the more closely it presses upon me and importunes me the less reason I shall have to be afraid to die.”
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As a matter of religious observance, if a beggar importunes me directly, I must fork over some money.
Freakonomics Quorum: The Economics of Street Charity - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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As a matter of religious observance, if a beggar importunes me directly, I must fork over some money.
Freakonomics Quorum: The Economics of Street Charity - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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What the romantic in rags pines after like all tomtompions haunting crevices for a deadbeat escupement and what het importunes our Mitleid for in accornish with the Mortadarthella taradition is the poorest commonon-guardiant waste of time.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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A scoundrel and a liar, now he importunes the very power drunk Congress he helped elect to protect journalists from the all powerful courts and a rampant US Government.
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This was the consideration that incessantly prompted, and still importunes me to run every risk of life and fortune, rather than leave my fame under such an ignominious aspersion.
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So please you, he is here at the door and importunes access to you.
As You Like It 2004
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