Mary said that Tom was too importunate, or something along those lines.
Source: tatoeba (4380626)
Importunate
/ɪmˈpɔːtjʊnət/
Synonyms for "importunate" (94 found)
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Related words (47)
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4 entriesCollocations
5 entriesimportunate creditorimportunate demandimportunate petitionimportunate prayerimportunate suitor
Inflections
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3 entriessimilar
3 entriesTranslations
8 translations across 6 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- досаден adj (of a person)
- натрапчив adj (of a person)
Catalan
1 entries- importú adj (of a person)
Finnish
1 entries- vaativainen adj (of a person)
Irish
1 entries- achainíoch adj (of a person)
Macedonian
2 entries- на́метлив adj (of a person)
- на́траплив adj (of a person)
Māori
1 entries- tōwenewene adj (of a person)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
With such words as these day by day, both the woman was importunate with the young man, and he refused the adultery.
Source: tatoeba (7876572)
Nick was on the point of declaring again that he was a humbug, so vivid was his inner sense of what he thought of his factitious public utterances, which had the cursed property of creating dreadful responsibilities and importunate credulities for him.
Source: wiktionary
Trembling in every limb I raise my loud importunate cry, And in a sacred terror wait the Delian god’s reply.
Source: wiktionary
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