importune
verb (used with object)
to press or beset with solicitations; demand with urgency or persistence.
unimportuned
-
a word derived from
importune.
Example Sentences
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The subject did not appear to be regarded as one ripe for free discussion; therefore the lady and her tenant were suffered to keep details to themselves, unimportuned by the curiosity of their listeners.
From Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
There is much difference between these people and the Neapolitans; they seem to have no liking for noise, talk with a certain repose, and allow the stranger to go about among them unmolested, unimportuned.
From By the Ionian Sea Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy by George Gissing
So is the blood sometimes: whoever ran To danger unimportuned, he was then No better than a sanguine, virtuous man.
From Tablets by Amos Bronson Alcott
