disapproval If someone importunes another person, they ask them for something or ask them to do something, in an annoying way. One can no longer walk the streets without seeing beggars importuning passers by. = pester. to ask someone for something continuously in an annoying or unreasonable way beg (importuner, from importunus )
To request or solicit, with urgency; to press with frequent, unreasonable, or troublesome application or pertinacity; hence, to tease; to irritate; to worry