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Crossword-Solution: NEEDY 5 letters, 195 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word Word Type Definition
Needy superl. Distressed by want of the means of living; very por;
indigent; necessitous.
Needy superl. Necessary; requiste.

We have 195 clues for the answer “NEEDY”

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"For I am poor and ___" 1 answer
Always looking for something 1 answer
Attention-hoarding, say 1 answer
Attention-seeking, say 1 answer
Care package recipients 1 answer
Clinging, say 1 answer
Clingy, in a way 1 answer
Clingy, perhaps 1 answer
Clingy, say 1 answer
Constantly in want of attention 1 answer
Constantly seeking validation 1 answer
Constantly seeking validation, say 1 answer
Definitely not loaded 1 answer
Demanding constant attention 1 answer
Demanding constant attention, perhaps 1 answer
Demanding constant emotional support 1 answer
Demanding much attention 1 answer
Deserving of welfare 1 answer
Desiring constant attention 1 answer
Desperate for cash 1 answer
Eligible for a scholarship, maybe 1 answer
Eligible for food stamps, say 1 answer
Emotionally demanding 1 answer
Extremely poor 1 answer
Far from affluent 1 answer
Far from prosperous 1 answer
Far from well-off 1 answer
Hard-up for cash 1 answer
Hardly affluent. 1 answer
Hardly independent 1 answer
Hardly well-off 1 answer
High-maintenance 1 answer
High-maintenance, in a way 1 answer
High-maintenance, say 1 answer
High-maintenance, so to speak 1 answer
Humanitarian's concern 1 answer
Impovished 1 answer
In poverty 1 answer
In rags and patches. 1 answer
In the have-not category. 1 answer
In the lowest possible tax bracket 1 answer
In the poorhouse 1 answer
Lacking lucre 1 answer
Lacking the essentials 1 answer
Lacking two nickels to rub together 1 answer
Like a cat that follows you everywhere 1 answer
Like a cat that's always underfoot 1 answer
Like a partner who can't spend a second apart from you 1 answer
Like a partner who constantly texts you 1 answer
Like a pet cat who constantly demands scritches 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Unscramble NEEDY5-letter words that start with N5-letter words that end in Y5-letter words containing EE5-letter words containing DY5-letter words with N and E

Sentences with NEEDY (5)

What you gonna do, boy? In them thar computers? I FIGURE I'D GIVE A FEW EXTRA BENEFITS TO SOME NEEDY GI'S WHO'VE BEEN ON THE SHORT END.
Terminal Compromise Winn Schwartau 1993
Again: those nobles who had seen the coming storm in time, and anticipating plunder or confiscation, had made provident remittances to Tellson’s, were always to be heard of there by their needy brethren.
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1994
Her mother’s excellent sense, and my long experience, had combined to relieve her of all responsibility, and to guard her from all danger of becoming the victim in the future of some needy and unscrupulous man.
The Moonstone Wilkie Collins 1994
Invariably it was the needy who won, the destitute and starving woke to wealth and plenty, the virtuous toiler suddenly found his reward in a ticket bought at a hazard; the lottery was a great charity, the friend of the people, a vast beneficent machine that recognized neither rank nor wealth nor station.
McTeague Frank Norris 2006
For we robbed no poor folk and needy, but rewarded them rather, and drave the spoil from rich men and lords, and hard-hearted chapmen-folk: we ravished no maid of the tillers, we burned no cot, and taxed no husbandman's croft or acre, but defended them from their tyrants.
The Well at the World's End William Morris 2008

Quotes with NEEDY (3)

I love being in love, but I also love other things, like not being jealous, overly sensitive, or needy.
Dark Jar Tin Zoo Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.
Don't bite his face, Eleanor told herself. It's disturbing and needy and never happens in situation comedies or movies that end with big kisses.
Rainbow Rowell Eleanor & Park
... It's who you are. You're like a hummingbird, defying reality, a beautiful mystery, spreading your sweetness to all the needy flowers. Well, I'm no pretty garden blossom and I don't need your brand of sugar.
Karin Kallmaker The Kiss That Counted
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 488 times in crossword archives (1953–2025).