neediness
a condition of want or need; poverty; indigence.
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How to use neediness in a sentence
No longer just breaking stuff for no good reason, they were now pleading for our understanding—sometimes, as in Phillips’ Joker, with the cloying neediness of a thrift-store clown painting.
From Cruella to Maleficent to the Joker: Is It Time to Retire the Villain Origin Story? | Stephanie Zacharek | May 26, 2021 | TimeDuring the exhausting 1992 campaign I was asked if Clinton got tired of the crowds: their neediness, their wide-eyed lunging.
Paul Begala on Why Bill Clinton’s Still Got the Magic | Paul Begala | October 10, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTEach performance had its set of demands—a lightness in one, an unlikely neediness in another.
This emotional neediness was brilliantly parodied in the Austin Powers films with Dr. Evil.
But in our day it is necessity, neediness, that prevails, and lends a degraded humanity under its iron yoke.
The Aesthetical Essays | Friedrich Schiller
After a short experience of three weeks Comte returned to neediness and contentment.
Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) | John MorleyBut everywhere the ill-assorted marriage of pretentiousness and neediness was apparent.
The Historical Nights' Entertainment | Rafael Sabatini
British Dictionary definitions for neediness
/ (ˈniːdɪnɪs) /
the state of being needy; poverty
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