insistently


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in·sis·tent

 (ĭn-sĭs′tənt)
adj.
1. Firm in asserting a demand or an opinion; unyielding.
2. Demanding attention or a response: insistent hunger.
3. Repetitive and persistent: the jay's insistent cry.

in·sis′tent·ly adv.
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Adv.1.insistently - in an insistent manner
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insistently

[ɪnˈsɪstəntlɪ] ADV [ask, say, knock, ring] → insistentemente, con insistencia
he was tugging insistently at his mother's sleevetiraba insistentemente or con insistencia de la manga de su madre
he tried very insistently to sell us some toysintentó con mucha insistencia vendernos unos juguetes
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

insistently

[ɪnˈsɪstəntli] adv
(= determinedly) [say, ask] → avec insistance
(= continually) [ring] → avec insistance
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

insistently

advmit Nachdruck; the telephone rang insistentlydas Telefon klingelte penetrant und unaufhörlich; this question will be put more and more insistentlydiese Frage wird immer beharrlicher gestellt werden
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

insistently

[ɪnˈsɪstntlɪ] advinsistentemente, con insistenza
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
References in classic literature ?
He would have regarded such a thought as a great sin of pride; but the mother who brought the boy implored him insistently, falling at his feet and saying:
But of late, while he was staying in Moscow after his wife's confinement, with nothing to do, the question that clamored for solution had more and more often, more and more insistently, haunted Levin's mind.
Just as he had done after Austerlitz, he related this occurrence at such length and so insistently that everyone again believed it had been necessary to do this, and he received two decorations for the Finnish war also.
The sky was sharp and blue; the snow diamonds sparkled insistently; the stark trees were bare and shameless, with a kind of brazen beauty; the hills shot assaulting lances of crystal.
The wind came from the left, insistently blowing over to one side the mane on Mukhorty's sleek neck and carrying aside even his fluffy tail, which was tied in a simple knot.
For he knew that there, floating in the blue above him, was meat, the meat his stomach yearned after so insistently. But the hawk refused to come down and give battle, and the cub crawled away into a thicket and whimpered his disappointment and hunger.
Mr Verloc did not seem so much asleep now as lying down with a bent head and looking insistently at his left breast.
The Mingotts, the Wellands, the van der Luydens, all your friends and relations: if I didn't show you honestly how they judge such questions, it wouldn't be fair of me, would it?" He spoke insistently, almost pleading with her in his eagerness to cover up that yawning silence.
There was nothing that she longed for at that moment except to see Will: the possibility of seeing him had thrust itself insistently between her and every other object; and yet she had a throbbing excitement like an alarm upon her-- a sense that she was doing something daringly defiant for his sake.
"You know it's so, don't you?" said Ruby insistently.
The telephone on his table was ringing insistently. He rose to his feet and glanced at the clock as he crossed the room.
Irrelevantly, insistently, scores of times, he wondered when they would come on and what they looked like.