Crossword-Solution: IMPORTUNATE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Importunate | a. | Troublesomely urgent; unreasonably solicitous; overpressing in request or demand; urgent; teasing; as, an impotunate petitioner, curiosity. |
| Importunate | a. | Hard to be borne; unendurable. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| IMPORTUNATE | anagram | PERMUTATION |
We have 5 clues for the answer “IMPORTUNATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| exigent | 20 answers |
| insatiable | 36 answers |
| Pressing | 45 answers |
| Urgent | 52 answers |
| Imperative | 61 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARTEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with IMPORTUNATE (5)
Dimmesdale’s flock, were alike importunate that he should make trial of the physician’s frankly offered skill.
With her children they were in continual raptures, extolling their beauty, courting their notice, and humouring their whims; and such of their time as could be spared from the importunate demands which this politeness made on it, was spent in admiration of whatever her ladyship was doing, if she happened to be doing any thing, or in taking patterns of some elegant new dress, in which her appearance the day before had thrown them into unceasing delight.
From a heart-ache to a Roman rain there were few importunate pains the great church did not help him to forget.
Now, she was both diffident and importunate; extremely reserved sometimes with her friends, and strangely expansive with strangers.
Certainly, at first, the choice of Blanche Evers seemed highly incongruous; it was difficult to imagine a young woman less shaped to minister to Gordon’s strenuous needs than the light-hearted and empty-headed little flirt whose inconsequent prattle had remained for Bernard one of the least importunate memories of a charming time.
Quotes with IMPORTUNATE (3)
Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire and longing; she found joyless days of distasteful occupation harder and harder; she found the image of the intense and varied life she yearned for, and despaired of, becoming more and more importunate.
The criminal (as slave) often seeks a person of great perfection (and here, as a judge of people's imperfection, the criminal is much harsher than a good man), because he so wants to obtain trust from outside (not through an inner change of mind). If he believes he has found such a person, he gives himself up to him in the most complete slavery, and he searches in an importunate manner for people whom he could serve as a slave. He also wants to live as a slave so as never to be alone.
What a study in importunity, in earnestness, in persistence, promoted and propelled under conditions which would have disheartened any but a heroic, constant soul. [Jesus] teaches that an answer to prayer is conditional upon the amount of faith that goes to the petition. To test this, He delays the answer. the superficial pray-er subsides into silence, when thteanswer is delayed. But eh man of prayer hangs on, and on. The Lord recognizes and honors his faith, and gives him a …