0 present participle of importune
1 to make repeated, forceful requests for something, usually in a way that is annoying or causing slight problems:
Government officials and politicians certainly would have preferred not to have to listen to the importuning of the war-damaged.
The operational practices that characterized importuning prosecutions took shape within a similar interplay between culture and technology.
As the discussion above suggests, policemen became increasingly sensitized to the visual signifiers that allowed them to differentiate the importuning man or soliciting woman from the crowd.
What is kerb crawling but the harassment of innocent, decent ladies in the street by men who come alongside them in a car, importuning them?
Is not this mass importuning an unreasonable intrusion upon people's privacy?
We are dealing with importuning in a public place which often, but not exclusively, means outside public lavatories.
That section deals with the offence of importuning by men.
The offence is one of a man "persistently soliciting or importuning in a public place for immoral purposes".
