needy
Example Sentences
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Barbie’s needy male counterpart, it turns out, is not “just Ken.”
From Los Angeles Times
My voice comes out needier than I mean it to.
From Literature
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In recent years, more than a dozen U.S. cities have run universal basic income programs, often smaller or pilot programs that have offered guaranteed basic incomes to select groups of needy residents.
From Salon
He’s less needy of approval: He’s written off the mainstream press.
As AI labs obsess over the amount of time people spend with their products, chatbots have become ferociously needy people pleasers.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.