insistence
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| —adj | |
| 1. | making continual and persistent demands |
| 2. | demanding notice or attention; compelling: the insistent cry of a bird |
| in'sistence | |
| —n | |
| in'sistency | |
| —n | |
| in'sistently | |
| —adv | |
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Insistence
is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
Example sentences
There was his stubborn insistence that tobacco was not necessarily addictive.
It's a steady insistence that it's not a producer-consumer model, with the audience full of consumers, but rather a conversation.
The insistence on plainness, the absence of stylization, carries over to the performances as well.
The studio became widely revered for its creative culture and for its insistence on originality.
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