importunity
- n insistent solicitation and entreaty
his importunity left me no alternative but to agree
- Roses flung on marble stairs, ladies dropping languid importunity in boudoirs through which Gounod's "Ave Maria" wanders like an oddly-chosen perfume, not infrequently assist the .
- The delicious menace of that word has been long savored by people who have yielded to the importunity of a megaphoning bus-starter and have ridden THROUGH CHINATOWN FOR $1.
- To the Communist Party faithful, they are bitongos, spoiled kids of the Cuban revolution who turned their back on socialism when times got hard and importunity knocked.