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insistent

/in-sis-tuhnt/US // ɪnˈsɪs tənt //UK // (ɪnˈsɪstənt) //

执着的,执着,顽固的,坚持不懈地

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : earnest or emphatic in dwelling upon, maintaining, or demanding something; persistent; pertinacious.
    • : compelling attention or notice: an insistent tone.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.demanding

Examples

  • The few that remained were removed before the improvised singers’ insistent chorus.

  • Her insistent perception — the real action of this novel — is her greatest skill and her riskiest vulnerability.

  • Although some of her family members are still insistent against the vaccine, Crawford said, she is holding out hope that the Delta variant might be “scaring straight at least a few folks.”

  • It starts in the mouth, the initial pang of craving quite subtle and easy to ignore, but the signals get more insistent.

  • He was insistent, however, that having professional athletes wearing their product was essential to a running shoe company’s credibility.

  • The drumbeat and synth bass are as insistent as they are ominous.

  • But Hollande was “insistent,” she writes, and “his strength of persuasion was nuclear.”

  • My collaborator, Darcy Evans, and I are very insistent on calling Stealing Sam a “one-person play” and not a solo show.

  • This great healing event for veterans has been pushed aside by a few ATV advocates insistent on illegally riding their silly toys.

  • I want her to grow up to feel confident and powerful about herself and insistent about the world around her.

  • And he was so infernally insistent about it, that she was forced to pull up and get away from the post in self-defense.

  • The music grew strange and fantastic—turbulent, insistent, plaintive and soft with entreaty.

  • Even her violent outburst of temper had not stilled the insistent voice which in reiteration never wearied.

  • The incident, however, gave Darry a chance to break away from the insistent Belle.

  • Therefore is there, in me, at least, an insistent whisper for ancestral and long denied rights.