Crossword-Solution: IMPORTUNE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Importune | a. | To request or solicit, with urgency; to press with frequent, unreasonable, or troublesome application or pertinacity; hence, to tease; to irritate; to worry. |
| Importune | a. | To import; to signify. |
| Importune | v. i. | To require; to demand. |
We have 41 clues for the answer “IMPORTUNE”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| plead annoyingly | 1 answer |
| make demands | 1 answer |
| make application | 1 answer |
| harass with persistent requests | 1 answer |
| give terms | 1 answer |
| Repeatedly entreat | 1 answer |
| Press persistently | 1 answer |
| Plead persistently | 1 answer |
| Plead irksomely | 1 answer |
| Urge persistently | 2 answers |
| Make requests persistently | 2 answers |
| BEG PERSISTENTLY AND URGENTLY | 10 answers |
| Dun | 17 answers |
| Pray | 19 answers |
| Adjure | 19 answers |
| invoke | 19 answers |
| Implore | 22 answers |
| Beseech | 24 answers |
| Solicit | 25 answers |
| Plead | 28 answers |
| Big Time | 30 answers |
| Entreat | 32 answers |
| accost | 35 answers |
| BEG ___ | 42 answers |
| Crave | 44 answers |
| intuitive | 49 answers |
| Elicit | 50 answers |
| ASK ___ | 51 answers |
| Pressure | 53 answers |
| Persuade | 55 answers |
| BADGER ___ | 60 answers |
| Urge | 65 answers |
| Pursue | 69 answers |
| Apply | 70 answers |
| involuntary | 71 answers |
| Appeal | 73 answers |
| Petition | 78 answers |
| Annoy | 82 answers |
| Worry | 99 answers |
| Approach | 101 answers |
| Trouble | 108 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REETA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with IMPORTUNE (5)
Thenceforth to Speculations high or deep I turnd my thoughts, and with capacious mind Considerd all things visible in Heav’n, Or Earth, or Middle, all things fair and good; But all that fair and good in thy Divine Semblance, and in thy Beauties heav’nly Ray United I beheld; no Fair to thine Equivalent or second, which compel’d Mee thus, though importune perhaps, to come And gaze, and worship thee of right declar’d Sovran of Creatures, universal Dame.
She had come to the conclusion that he spoke no other English, and so she ceased to importune him for information; but never did she forget to greet him pleasantly or to thank him for the hideous, nauseating meals he brought her.
Gradually, to be sure, the stress of the old thoughts would return; but at least they did not importune her waking hour.
Force, maketh nature more violent in the return; doctrine and discourse, maketh nature less importune; but custom only doth alter and subdue nature.
When I am dead, let the Marquis de las Cisternas know that his Brother’s unhappy family can no longer importune him.
Quotes with IMPORTUNE (3)
At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say, — 'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.
I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested--'But these impulses may be from below, not from above.' I replied, 'They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child, I will live them from the devil.
Will it ultimately reach the clear surface of my consciousness, this memory, this old, dead moment which the magnetism of an identical moment has travelled so far to importune, to disturb, to raise up out of the very depths of my being? I cannot tell. Now that I feel nothing, it has stopped, has perhaps gone down again into its darkness, from which who can say whether it will ever rise?
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1978–2012).