Thesaurus / neediness
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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 ZACHAREKMAY 26, 2021TIMEBut in our day it is necessity, neediness, that prevails, and lends a degraded humanity under its iron yoke.
THE AESTHETICAL ESSAYSFRIEDRICH SCHILLERAfter 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' ENTERTAINMENTRAFAEL SABATINIWORDS RELATED TO NEEDINESS
- abjection
- aridity
- bankruptcy
- barrenness
- beggary
- dearth
- debt
- deficiency
- deficit
- depletion
- destitution
- difficulty
- distress
- emptiness
- exiguity
- famine
- hardship
- impecuniosity
- impecuniousness
- impoverishment
- inadequacy
- indigence
- insolvency
- insufficiency
- lack
- meagerness
- necessitousness
- necessity
- need
- neediness
- pass
- paucity
- pauperism
- pennilessness
- penury
- pinch
- poorness
- privation
- reduction
- scarcity
- shortage
- starvation
- straits
- underdevelopment
- vacancy
- want
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