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Meanings of
exigent
in inglês
Demanding attention.
instant
crying
insistent
clamant
Related terms
imperative
Requiring precise accuracy.
exacting
Related terms
demanding
Needing immediate action.
urgent
Usage of
exigent
in inglês
1
All his old
exigent
,
extravagant liking for rich clothing returned to him.
2
For a woman, who is a woman, never forgets to be
exigent
.
3
They've claimed
exigent
circumstances, which we'll argue the court should reject. He shrugs.
4
I am afraid I shall be selfish and
exigent
to the last degree.
5
He was a Genoese weaver's son with a large, clamorous, and
exigent
family.
6
The cops thought they had
exigent
circumstances, but the judge disagreed.
7
In that case perhaps M. Bertrand des Amis would not be too
exigent
.
8
He was an unbending messiah and, by all accounts,
exigent
,
demanding and unreasonable.
9
This state of mind often made him very
exigent
,
and sometimes unjustifiably suspicious.
10
I measured every likely candidate against
exigent
standards: Did he have a normal hairline?
11
But you are too
exigent
,
monsieur; you assume the husband, and you tease me.
12
To serve these
exigent
divinities he does not shrink from the most violent measures.
13
At this
exigent
moment, the loss of a finished man is not easily supplied.
14
For this latter there was no precedent, no conceivable explanation save some
exigent
emergency.
15
Was not her demeanour as chastely cautious as my own
exigent
heart could desire?
16
In such a situation, the
exigent
circumstances rule applies.
Other examples for "exigent"
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About this term
exigent
Adjective
Frequent collocations
exigent circumstances
so exigent
most exigent
too exigent
very exigent
More collocations
Exigent
through the time
Exigent
across language varieties
United Kingdom
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