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 “less intelligent” and “inferior”, 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_."

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