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importuning
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Verb
Present participle for to harass (someone) persistently for, or to do, something
Present participle for to implore someone to do something
Present participle for to make or offer inappropriate proposals or services
Present participle for to detain (a person) in conversation against their will
Present participle for to tease, typically in a good-natured way
Present participle for to effectively force (someone) to do something
Present participle for seek as romantic partner
Present participle for to cajole or convince someone with flattery
Present participle for to (attempt to) influence, persuade or pressure someone, typically politically
Noun
The act of entreating or beseeching
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Verb
▲
Present participle for to harass (someone) persistently for, or to do, something
harassing
plaguing
bothering
harrying
pestering
hassling
hounding
tormenting
badgering
bugging
besetting
nagging
annoying
beleaguering
dunning
mithering
going on at
harping on at
egging on
troubling
worrying
persecuting
teasing
bending someone's ear
disturbing
riding
bedeviling
US
bedevilling
UK
chivvying
needling
hectoring
goading
nudging
besieging
pressing
keeping after
giving a hard time
working on
provoking
bullying
irritating
afflicting
urging
dogging
irking
torturing
baiting
barraging
plying
fretting
heckling
oppressing
tantalizing
US
keeping on at
picking on
getting at
tantalising
UK
getting to
picking at
gnawing at
lying heavy on
soliciting
pressurizing
US
petitioning
pressurising
UK
giving the business
eating at
insisting on
racking
harrowing
agonizing
US
anguishing
excruciating
cursing
aggravating
distressing
upsetting
molesting
deviling
devilling
disquieting
unsettling
haunting
chivying
agonising
UK
perturbing
insisting
reminding
preying on
weighing heavily on
causing suffering to
giving someone grief
nagging at
vexing
discomposing
agitating
concerning
flustering
alarming
stressing
driving up the wall
taxing
fazing
driving round the bend
driving crazy
driving you up the wall
getting on your nerves
intruding upon
messing with
getting on one's nerves
getting in your hair
scaring
rattling
dismaying
straining
flurrying
fussing
throwing
frazzling
despairing
ailing
aggrieving
discomforting
burdening
distempering
frightening
distracting
unhinging
discombobulating
testing
trying
chafing
hagriding
weighing down
depressing
derailing
tearing
alaruming
making anxious
exercising
undoing
causing anxiety to
freaking out
weirding out
sweating out
henpecking
criticizing
US
prodding
scolding
berating
upbraiding
egging
criticising
UK
pecking at
finding fault
busting someone's balls
finding fault with
grumbling at
moaning on at
keeping complaining to
taking it out on
moaning at
breathing down someone's neck
busting chops
carping at
more ❯
“Lydia is fending off the latest reporter trying to
importune
her for information.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to implore someone to do something
imploring
begging
beseeching
entreating
soliciting
petitioning
asking
supplicating
praying
urging
appealing
impetrating
pleading
conjuring
demanding
enjoining
besieging
obsecrating
pressing
insisting
persuading
appealing to
calling on
pleading with
pleading to
applying to
working on
requesting
seeking
requisitioning
craving
suing
adjuring
exhorting
bidding
requiring
calling for
ordering
calling
asking for
invoking
praying to
obtesting
questing
desiring
exacting
claiming
calling upon
pressing for
insisting on
petitioning for
appealing for
lobbying
commanding
proposing
applying
suing for
asking earnestly
bespeaking
begging for
putting in for
hitting up
encouraging
summoning
expecting
applying for
pushing for
invocating
pushing
pleading for
nagging
clamouring
UK
speaking for
directing
wishing
clamoring
US
stipulating
inviting
pestering
telling
going on bended knee
inquiring
enquiring
UK
requesting earnestly
asking urgently
stipulating for
clamoring for
hitting on
clamouring for
praying for
whistling for
badgering for
nagging for
baying for
pestering for
looking for
raising
dictating
interceding
prigging
challenging
suggesting
crying for
cajoling
coaxing
calling to
making a plea to
filing
referring
filing for
counting on
bidding for
craving of
submitting
propositioning
holding out for
forcing
inquiring about
laying claim to
coercing
obliging
arrogating
compelling
campaigning
contesting
advancing
addressing
baying
goading
pursuing
prompting
charging
speaking
sponging
hustling
making an urgent request
resorting
making an earnest request
making a plea
requesting urgently
badgering
holding out
putting in a plea
placing an order
putting in
putting in an order
putting in an application
bugging
nudging
drumming
prodding
wanting
making a claim
asking forcefully
asking authoritatively
asking brusquely
egging on
postulating
questioning
querying
pressuring
bumming
cadgin
cadging
drumming up
canvassing
instructing
beckoning
obtaining
appointing
sending for
attracting
mandating
decreeing
necessitating
hailing
buying
wheedling
warning
paging
trying to obtain
fetching
insisting upon
getting
influencing
pleasing
extorting
extracting
motioning
imposing
electing
constraining
aspiring
barking
spieling
canvasing
making
bearing
touting
putting in a claim for
putting dibs on
asserting oneself
obligating
causing
enquiring after
making an entreaty
making application
submitting an application
going in
campaigning for
drumming up support
making a pitch for
going after
booking
freeloading
ordaining
securing
reserving
needing
prescribing
leeching
mooching
engaging
tasking
subpoenaing
authorising
UK
authorizing
US
ruling
commissioning
scabbing
collecting
indenting
hiring
calling the shots
giving orders
forcing upon
giving the command to
putting your foot down
giving the order to
giving orders to
giving directions
laying down the law
bossing around
imposing on
bludging
borrowing
accepting donations
passing the hat
putting in an order for
placing an order for
sending away for
imploring for
lobbying for
asking people to give
panhandling for
sending off for
writing off for
contracting for
scrounging
sorning on someone for
touching someone for
more ❯
“We will then begin to
importune
him for alms, flattering him with fine language, as though we knew his plans.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to make or offer inappropriate proposals or services
soliciting
propositioning
accosting
hustling
making advances
coming on to
“Roxanne, you don't have to put on the red light. Those days are over. You don't have to
importune
the gentlemen tonight.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to detain (a person) in conversation against their will
buttonholing
stopping
accosting
catching
approaching
waylaying
detaining
halting
collaring
confronting
grabbing
hailing
nobbling
intercepting
soliciting
ambushing
cornering
taking aside
shouting to
calling to
pouncing on
swooping down on
stopping and talk to
hounding
questioning
addressing
bothering
crossing
flagging
interviewing
talking to
speaking to
whistling for
discussing something with
initiating a discussion with
cross-examining
running into
surrounding
pinning down
restricting
attacking
tackling
taking on
summoning
beckoning
calling
signaling
US
signalling
UK
hollering
waving
shouting
hallooing
flagging down
waving to
whistling down
calling over
making a sign to
singing out
gesturing to stop
waving down
calling out to
signalling to stop
signaling to
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to tease, typically in a good-natured way
teasing
ribbing
kidding
mocking
chaffing
taunting
ridiculing
deriding
joshing
ragging
needling
joking
jiving
razzing
riding
rallying
satirising
UK
satirizing
US
roasting
baiting
bantering
twitting
tormenting
gibing
annoying
funning
guying
goading
harassing
quizzing
plaguing
worrying
hassling
heckling
bothering
chiacking
pestering
hazing
harrying
badgering
provoking
irritating
aggravating
bedeviling
US
bedevilling
UK
shucking
smoking
rotting
hectoring
sledging
vexing
beleaguering
deviling
devilling
gnawing
nudging
disturbing
spoofing
slamming
dogging
snapping
sounding
laughing at
scoffing at
jeering at
making fun of
jibing at
poking fun at
winding up
sending up
goofing on
making jokes about
ragging on
poking mullock at
making sport of
slinging off at
taking the mickey
picking on
putting on
putting down
making a monkey of
having on
flouting at
messing around
pulling someone's leg
leading on
flirting with
poking borak at
pulling one's leg
swipeing at
taking the piss out of
giving a hard time
messing with
Verb
▲
Present participle for to effectively force (someone) to do something
pressing
compelling
forcing
assailing
browbeating
cajoling
coercing
dragooning
driving
goading
harassing
impelling
making
pressuring
pressurising
UK
pressurizing
US
pushing
steamrollering
wheedling
arguing
bulldozing
hounding
obligating
obliging
railroading
besetting
besieging
constraining
impressing
muscling
oppressing
plaguing
sandbagging
swaying
talking
blackjacking
enforcing
tormenting
troubling
vexing
insisting on
prevailing on
having someone do something
putting pressure on
using strong-arm tactics on
putting the heat on
putting the screws on
coming at
twisting someone's arm
Verb
▲
Present participle for seek as romantic partner
wooing
courting
chasing
pursuing
sparking
inviting
romancing
running after
addressing
asking for
begging
caressing
charming
chasing after
cultivating
dating
encouraging
entreating
flattering
flirting with
proposing
rushing
soliciting
spooning
seeking to win
aiming for
buttering up
currying favour
curry favoring
going steady
keeping company
making advances
making love
making love to
paying court to
paying suit to
billing and coo
paying addresses to
seeking in marriage
setting your cap at
pressing one's suit with
seeking the hand of
setting one's cap for
Verb
▲
Present participle for to cajole or convince someone with flattery
sweet-talking
cajoling
coaxing
wheedling
enticing
persuading
inveigling
beguiling
tempting
flattering
luring
blarneying
inducing
influencing
blandishing
alluring
urging
palavering
getting
pressing
conning
worming
honeying
hooking
wangling
bartering
selling
softening
soft-soaping
talking into
buttering up
arguing into
prevailing upon
working on
arm-twisting
roping in
seducing
charming
wooing
encouraging
decoying
maneuvering
US
manoeuvring
UK
coming on
jawboning
prevailing on
twisting one's arm
teasing
talking someone into something
winning over
soothing
pestering
plaguing
getting round
smooth-talking
swaying
convincing
bringing round
sweetening up
talking
arguing
coercing
drawing
softening up
finagling
attracting
inviting
making
instigating
inciting
snowing
soaping
oiling
soliciting
laying it on
spreading it on
moving
provoking
getting around
ingratiating
getting next to
jollying
working over
bantering
tantalizing
US
captivating
stroking
tantalising
UK
wiling
flattering into
whetting
courting
prodding
reasoning
betraying
baiting
leading on
actuating
sucking in
bringing around
motivating
squeezing
bringing
coaxing into
inspiring
exerting influence on
activating
wheedling into
triggering
putting someone up to something
bulldozing
converting
drawing in
prompting
stimulating
steamrolling
impelling
prodding into
cajoling into
selling one on
appealing to
kowtowing
entrapping
tolling
batting eyes at
leading astray
turning on
dangling a carrot in front of
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to (attempt to) influence, persuade or pressure someone, typically politically
lobbying
influencing
persuading
petitioning
pressing
pressuring
pushing
urging
soliciting
swaying
appealing
pressurising
UK
pressurizing
US
appealing to
calling on
inducing
pitching
politicking
procuring
requesting
selling
soft-selling
soft-soaping
sweet-talking
trying to persuade
applying pressure
building up
campaigning for
high pressuring
selling one on
swaying opinion
bringing pressure to bear on
exerting influence
pressing your case
pulling strings
putting pressure on
seeking to influence
soliciting votes
trying to influence
making a pitch for
bringing pressure to bear
Noun
▲
The act of entreating or beseeching
entreaty
plea
appeal
petition
prayer
suit
supplication
request
solicitation
exhortation
beseeching
claim
pleading
adjuration
application
begging
bidding
conjuration
cry
demand
desire
enjoinment
imploration
suppliance
urge
impetration
importunity
imprecation
obsecration
obtestation
cry from the heart
earnest request
urging
insistence
prompting
wish
suggestion
pressure
instance
behest
instigation
incitement
stress
command
dictate
pressing
requirement
instruction
arm-twisting
insistency
hest
say-so
persuasion
demandingness
invocation
requisition
call
bid
overture
question
ultimatum
submission
orison
address
litany
intercession
recourse
proposal
inquiry
US
enquiry
UK
dun
rogation
proposition
asking
order
petitioning
summons
invitation
urgent request
mandate
beseech
drive
charge
call to action
cri de cœur
imploring
request for help
dua
ave
begging request
round robin
soliciting
requesting
karakia
de profundis
humble request
notice
tender
form
query
market
imposition
letter
want
stipulation
subpoena
offer
commercial
postulation
approach
draught
UK
presentation
paper
clamour
UK
need
condition
provision
direction
encouragement
draft
US
pretension
right
pretence
UK
pretense
US
dibs
counterclaim
arrogation
pursuit
big ask
exaction
must-have
interest
interrogation
entreatment
clamor
US
lien
reclamation
more ❯
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