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INSISTENTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does insistently mean? 

INSISTENTLY (adverb)
  The adverb INSISTENTLY has 1 sense:

1. in an insistent mannerplay

  Familiarity information: INSISTENTLY used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


INSISTENTLY (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

In an insistent manner

Pertainym:

insistent (demanding attention)


 Context examples 


For he knew that there, floating in the blue above him, was meat, the meat his stomach yearned after so insistently.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Irrelevantly, insistently, scores of times, he wondered when they would come on and what they looked like.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The cabin still rang with his voice, as he stood there, swaying, his bronzed face shining, his head up and dominant, and his eyes, golden and masculine, intensely masculine and insistently soft, flashing upon Maud at the door.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The type-writer people were again clamoring for money, insistently pointing out that according to the agreement rent was to be paid strictly in advance.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And they returned insistently, again and again, to a rehearsal of their first impressions of each other and to hopeless attempts to analyze just precisely what they felt for each other and how much there was of it.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"Who wants to go to town?" demanded Daisy insistently. Gatsby's eyes floated toward her. "Ah," she cried, "you look so cool."

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)



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