exigent

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You would think that Mattel, with their influence on young women, and considering the exigent issue of women's safety, would fashion Barbie's image to encourage self-empowerment, personify subjectivity, and address these issues.

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  1. adjective Requiring immediate action or remedy. See Synonyms at urgent.
  2. adjective Requiring much effort or expense; demanding.

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  • He made love to her in an exigent, masterful way, he took her out to lunch, to tea, to dinner. —  Through the Wall - Miss Silver - 1950 - Wentworth, Patricia
  • The society of all these is very exigent, and to be avoided by the infirm or indolent. —  A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795
  • The lady was exigent, and Castaing found it difficult to combine his work with a due regard to her claims on his society. —  A Book of Remarkable Criminals
  • You are a man of dominant personality: your intellect is exigent, more so than that of any man I ever knew: your demands on life are enormous: you require response, or you annihilate: the pleasure of being with you is in the clash of personality, the intellectual battle, the war of ideas. —  Oscar Wilde, Volume 2
  • Armenian consumers should be more exigent, Armen Poghosyan said. —  Armenian News - PanARMENIAN.Net
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  1. Latin exigēns, exigent-, present participle of exigere, to demand; see exact.

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  1. = French exigeant (see exigeant) = Spanish Portuguese exigente = Italian esigente, from Latin exigen(t-)s, present participle of exigere, drive out, drive forth, demand, exact, etc.: see exact, v.
 

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