importunities
- plural of importunity.
Example Sentences
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She does this while offering him no emotional response to his importunities whatsoever.
From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2024
In her footsteps, women had to take the next move as resisters of unwarranted prejudice: "Sue for your rights and privileges. Know the reason that you cannot attain them. Weary them with your importunities."
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2020
You can turn off your devices but you cannot turn off the knowledge that they are receiving the world’s importunities.
From Time ● Feb. 26, 2015
He endures dank tunnels and windswept platforms in winter, choking dust and stifling heat in summer, and the muscular importunities of station guards in all seasons.
From Time Magazine Archive
His master would have none of it; but scolded him for his importunities.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
