Meaning & use
importune
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To persistently ask someone for something, often in an urgent or annoying way.
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Reporters importuned the celebrity for a comment as she left the courthouse.
He importuned his boss for weeks before finally getting approval for the project.
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A formal, somewhat literary word; in everyday speech people are more likely to say "pester" or "hound."
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