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desires

noun as in request

verb as in ask, request

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So it might be me projecting my desires onto Archer to want to just get away from work for a few weeks.

After each session, she would sit with those who obliged and speak to them about their past, problems and desires.

Sharpton would later emphasize to The Daily Beast that he neither possesses nor desires such power.

On the other hand, it does seem like playing someone who gives in to their most base impulses and desires could be kind of fun.

We need to see our lives, desires, bodies, relationships reflected back at us in books.

I, therefore, deliver it as a maxim, that whoever desires the character of a proud man ought to conceal his vanity.

Sympathising with its desires, Benjy changed his posture, and managed just to touch the nose of his enemy.

I want it to be great, free, and happy, and to shape its own destinies according to its desires and aspirations.

In many cases an agency is created for an indefinite period, and in these either party can terminate it whenever he desires.

Human desires would eat up the result of ten times the work we now accomplish.

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On this page you'll find 137 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to desires, such as: lust, eagerness, hunger, fascination, wish, and aspiration.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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