0 repeatedly asking for something, in a forceful and annoying way:
Occasionally women, who can not bear the pregnant state, make importunate demands for early delivery.
Let them not be importunate in speaking of money matters to their flocks.
Though the object of importunate solicitation, he is himself not in need of anything beyond himself.
He sought patronage, and was bold and importunate.
Distinguishing oneself by presenting one's ideas (even good ideas) to important people would have been considered importunate and rude.
They never go beyond rather loud, importunate propaganda.
Lingen was at all events a most successful resister of importunate claims, and his undoubted talents as a financier were most prominently displayed in the direction of parsimony.
A range of new frontiers beckoned the importunate eighteenth-century barrister.
