Importuning is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for IMPORTUNING in dictionary:

VERB:
• harass (someone) persistently for or to do something
• approach (someone) to offer one's services as a prostitute
NOUN:
• the act of importuning, making urgent requests
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• importunate

Words related to IMPORTUNING

importune13 importunings17

Words that contain IMPORTUNING

importunings17

How to use IMPORTUNING in a sentence

• Glidden was importuning with expressive hands and swift, low utterance.
• I admired the courage of the seamen, and gained his heart by importuning him for a recital of his adventures, and a sight of his foreign curiosities.
• If it were the first time I had ever approached you, a sense of delicacy, to say nothing of my own self-respect, would have prevented my importuning you in this way.
• Now and then a fresh explosion made the mob recoil, only to press close again, importuning, tragic, hopeless.
• There are even accounts of the translator being roused from sleep by bands of young men under his windows in Paris, importuning him to tell them another story.
• Waiters circle among the dancers, importuning them to drink.
• Udy, who are for ever importuning Thee upon the least occasion, praying at all hours and every day of the week.
• It happened that the midnight train from Cornwall was overdue, and fluttered women waiting for friends were importuning bored officials about the delay.
• A well-filled purse jingled in his pocket and now and then he tossed a silver coin to some importuning Indian along the road.
• New Orleans was importuning Congress to support it in an Exposition.
• As Hamil glanced from the young girl to Malcourt, who was still noisily importuning him, a sudden contempt for the man arose within him.
• He was still keeping up the pursuit and importuning the affronted official as both were lost to view behind a track of freights.
• Public prayers were said throughout the islands, beseeching and importuning God for a successful outcome.

Similar words containing PORTUN without suffix ing and without prefix im

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