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- verb Present participle of
importune . - noun The act by which somebody is
importuned ;pleading harassment .
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Examples
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According to the court transcript, there was no "importuning" of anyone coming or leaving the funeral.
Jim Lichtman: Only About the Law? Part II Jim Lichtman 2010
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According to the court transcript, there was no "importuning" of anyone coming or leaving the funeral.
Jim Lichtman: Only About the Law? Part II Jim Lichtman 2010
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It seems to me madness is a kind of importuning, a clutching at the sleeve.
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"To the last hour of the existence of several who appeared to be conspicuous actors in the drama, they were pressingly importuned to make further confessions," -- this "importuning" being more clearly defined in a letter of Mr. Ferguson, owner of two of the slaves, as "having them severely corrected."
Black Rebellion Five Slave Revolts Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1867
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Bond for Joseph P. P.cella, 37, was set at $500,000 Tuesday at a hearing in Coshocton Municipal Court on a charge of importuning, meaning solicitation to engage in sexual activity with a person less than 13 years of age, which is a third-degree felony.
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Reporters at his heels, importuning him, goading him, trying to steal his secrets, wandering in the Rose Garden, craning their necks to catch a glimpse of him behind his office drapes, with his feet on his desk and his tie loosened.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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Reporters at his heels, importuning him, goading him, trying to steal his secrets, wandering in the Rose Garden, craning their necks to catch a glimpse of him behind his office drapes, with his feet on his desk and his tie loosened.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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Answer: Any nonspeech activity like stalking, importuning, being confrontational could indeed justify a damage suit.
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Reporters at his heels, importuning him, goading him, trying to steal his secrets, wandering in the Rose Garden, craning their necks to catch a glimpse of him behind his office drapes, with his feet on his desk and his tie loosened.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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This is the vortex the occupiers seek to fill, and they won't do it with Naomi Klein's grating piffle; nor by importuning the SEC.
Conrad Black: My Manifesto For the Occupy Movement Conrad Black 2011
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