wanting
IPA: wˈɑntɪŋ
noun
- The state of wanting something; desire.
adjective
- That wants or desires.
- Absent or lacking.
- Deficient.
Examples of "wanting" in Sentences
- You seem not to have been honest in wanting a compromise.
- Guy on Sunday Forum this morning called in wanting to annihilate the Palestinians.
- yea cause wanting to be the center of attention for college students is so much more high brow than say..wanting your book made into a movie
- Someone writes back and says that line of argument makes sense (in wanting less regulation of the work week) but doesn't Bush just want to let employers exploit employees?
- He had no faith -- he was a hardened unbeliever -- and she could not make herself think of that at all -- could not stop herself from wanting -- _wanting_ him for her own, whatever happened.
- A highly intelligent man like the Unabomber is a highly despicable, inferior, being, but commenters here persist in wanting to confuse âless intelligentâ and âinferiorâ, where one is a neutral, measurable fact and the other a social construct.
- Despite the greater distribution channels Victory provided the band, Thursday were unhappy with some of the ways their image was used in the promotion of Full Collapse - one story tells of the label wanting to make whoopee cushions branded with the band's name.
- What otherwise was wanting in the security for the Nabob's engagements was to be supplied as follows: "The most respectable persons of his family will be employed to counteract every other which may tend to warp him from it; and I am sorry to say _that such assistance was wanting_."