Usually means: Soliciting persistently, often for favors.
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  1. importuning: Merriam-Webster
  2. importuning: Collins English Dictionary
  3. importuning: Vocabulary.com
  4. importuning: Wordnik
  5. importuning: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. importuning: Wiktionary
  7. Importuning, importuning: Dictionary.com
  8. Importuning: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Importuning: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. importuning: FreeDictionary.org
  11. importuning: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. importuning: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. importuning: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (importuning)

▸ noun:  The act by which somebody is importuned; pleading harassment.

Similar:
insist, pesterment, pestering, plaguing, worrying, harassing, bedevilling, botheration, bedeviling, beggary, more...

Opposite:
refraining, avoiding, ignoring, neglecting

Adjectives:
much, constant, male, persistent, such, private, sexual, further, incessant, previous, ceaseless

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Similar:
insist, pesterment, pestering, plaguing, worrying, harassing, bedevilling, botheration, bedeviling, beggary, more...

Opposite:
refraining, avoiding, ignoring, neglecting

Adjectives:
much, constant, male, persistent, such, private, sexual, further, incessant, previous, ceaseless



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