Crossword-Solution: HANKERING 9 letters, 13 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 17

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Word Word Type Definition
Hankering p. pr. & vb. n. of Hanker

We have 13 clues for the answer “HANKERING”

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A YEARNING FOR SOMETHING OR TO DO SOMETHING 11 answers
Strong desire. 13 answers
Yen 20 answers
envying 20 answers
LONGING for 24 answers
Aspiration 38 answers
Appetite 42 answers
Ache 45 answers
Adoration 50 answers
Thirst 56 answers
Itch 64 answers
Longing 67 answers
Craving 69 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETAER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with HANKERING (5)

Didst never want to be a pirate, my hearty?” Now John had sometimes experienced this hankering at maths.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
There’s plenty of boys that will come hankering and groveling around you when you’ve got an apple and beg the core off of you; but when they’ve got one, and you beg for the core and remind them how you give them a core one time, they say thank you ’most to death, but there ain’t a-going to be no core.
Tom Sawyer Abroad Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
There can be no better proof of the hankering epicure that is hidden in every man’s temperament, waiting for a signal from some divine confederate that he may safely peep out.
The American Henry James 1994
The desire for novelty, the passion for force and dirt, and the hankering after freakishness of mood, which many have attempted to substitute for the older and simpler things, are themselves the best evidence of disillusion and jaded nerves.
Young Adventure Stephen Vincent Benet 1995
You will plague many a lonely herdsman in mountain glades, when you come on herds and thick-fleeced sheep, and have a hankering after flesh.
Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Homer and Hesiod 2008

Quotes with HANKERING (3)

Listen. Just because we got a mutual hankering, doesn't mean we have to act on it. Aside from the hankering, there isn't much about you that I like. So far, you've been a pain in the behind. And I might as well tell you, I've followed through on one hankering and getting shot was more of an enjoyable experience. I didn't like it.
Maggie Osborne The Promise of Jenny Jones
Gratitude is the best food and fuel to start anything that you need to do - it will nourish and sustain you... and others too. Hankering will leave you hungry - or with with heart, head or belly ache - and tends to have or leave a sour or bitter taste too.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
Gratitude is the best food to start and sustain you. Hankering creates hunger, unhappiness, bellyache, headache and heartache - and often leaves a bitter taste
Rasheed Ogunlaru