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ballyhoo |
exaggerated, noisy, insistent advertising or publicity. [1/2 definitions] |
bawl |
to cry or shout in a loud and insistent voice. [1/3 definitions] |
disco |
a style of popular dance music with a heavy, insistent beat, usu. played with electronically amplified instruments. [1/4 definitions] |
dun1 |
a repeated and insistent demand, esp. for payment. [1/3 definitions] |
emphatic |
forceful, determined, or insistent in speech or action. [1/3 definitions] |
gadfly |
an annoying, insistent pest. [1/3 definitions] |
GI |
(informal) inflexibly insistent on adhering to military customs, practices, and regulations. [1/4 definitions] |
headstrong |
insistent on having one's own way; willful; stubborn. [1/2 definitions] |
heavy metal |
a variety of rock music featuring highly amplified sound and insistent rhythms. |
importune |
to pester with insistent demands or requests. [1/3 definitions] |
insistence |
the fact of insisting or quality of being insistent. |
overinsistent |
combined form of insistent. |
pedantic |
making or characterized by an excessive display of learnedness, or overly insistent on scholarly details and formalities. |
pedantry |
the act or practice, or an instance, of flaunting one's learnedness or of being overly insistent on scholarly formalities or details. |
persistence |
the quality of being steadfast, determined, stubborn, or insistent. [1/3 definitions] |
punk rock |
a loud and insistent style of rock music, characterized by deliberately offensive and aggressive lyrics, which originated in the late 1970s; punk. |
pushy |
(informal) annoyingly insistent upon satisfying one's desires; aggressive. |
sectarian |
overly or belligerently insistent on one's group's beliefs or positions; dogmatic. [2/4 definitions] |
thirst |
a strong or insistent desire to drink. [3/5 definitions] |
urgent |
earnestly or stubbornly insistent in requesting. [1/3 definitions] |
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