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.
We thought it more important to get it right than to respond to her importunate questions.
Week by week the organised lobbies become more importunate.
In our free country importunate questioning by officials is rightly kept to the minimum.
Occasionally women, who can not bear the pregnant state, make importunate demands for early delivery.
A range of new frontiers beckoned the importunate eighteenth-century barrister.
I do not wish to seem importunate, but, as he has been so reasonable on that point, will he be equally reasonable about car mileage allowances?
He was preaching on the text of the importunate creditor; the man who called for his rent.