Importunes

Word IMPORTUNES
Character 10
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Definitions and meanings of "Importunes"

What do we mean by importunes?

To bother, trouble, irritate.

To harass with persistent requests.

To approach to offer one's services as a prostitute, or otherwise make improper proposals.

To import; to signify.

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The word "importunes" in example sentences

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. ❋ W.E.B. DU BOIS (2004)

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. ❋ Amuchmoreexotic (2008)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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.” ❋ Unknown (2005)

As a matter of religious observance, if a beggar importunes me directly, I must fork over some money. ❋ Unknown (2007)

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. ❋ Unknown (2006)

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. ❋ Unknown (2005)

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. ❋ Unknown (2004)

So please you, he is here at the door and importunes access to you. ❋ Unknown (2004)

He importunes, persecutes one, and levies a regular tax on all travellers. ❋ Unknown (2003)

A stranger of curiosity comes into a place where a stranger is seldom seen: he importunes the people with questions, of which they cannot guess the motive, and gazes with surprise on things which they, having had them always before their eyes, do not suspect of any thing wonderful. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Matter appears, importunes, raises disorders, seeks to force its way within; but all the ground is holy, nothing there without part in Soul. ❋ Plotinus (1952)

In the island, the guide importunes Mr. Croker to visit the shelf of a rock overshadowed by yew, and called the Bed of Honour, "because 'twas there a lord-lieutenant of Ireland would go to sleep to cool himself after drinking plenty of whiskey punch." ❋ Various (N/A)

The Medium again importunes, first, 'Mr. Seybert' and next 'the Spirits' ❋ The Seybert Commission (N/A)

And if we see that the person who importunes us only does so for money, does it not occur to one that it is monstrous to be prodigal of one's own fame and reputation merely to make somebody else's purse heavier? ❋ 46-120? Plutarch (N/A)

But if the person that importunes us be famous or a man of power, for such persons are very hard to move by entreaty or to get rid of when they come to sue for your vote and interest, it will not perhaps be easy or even necessary to behave as Cato, when quite a young man, did to ❋ 46-120? Plutarch (N/A)

Jacobins to that of Parnassus -- a state-creditor importunes for a small payment from the Gods of Olympus -- and congratulations on the abolition of ❋ An English Lady (N/A)

His sister is the Duchesse de Richelieu, true daughter of her father, as ugly, or rather as lacking in charm, as he is; but replete with subtilty and intelligence, -- with that intelligence which perpetually suggests a humble origin, and which wearies or importunes, because of its ill-nature. ❋ Various (N/A)

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