Crossword-Solution: WANTING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Wanting | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Want |
| Wanting | a. | Absent; lacking; missing; also, deficient; destitute; needy; as, one of the twelve is wanting; I shall not be wanting in exertion. |
We have 77 clues for the answer “WANTING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Desirous of | 1 answer |
| unsharing | 4 answers |
| shorthanded | 4 answers |
| understaffed | 5 answers |
| undermanned | 5 answers |
| one-piece | 5 answers |
| PATTERN (pert. to) | 5 answers |
| uncomplete | 6 answers |
| of a pattern | 6 answers |
| monolithic | 7 answers |
| unfed | 8 answers |
| Underprivileged | 10 answers |
| unquenched | 11 answers |
| Thirsty. | 11 answers |
| BE ABSENT FROM | 11 answers |
| Featureless | 13 answers |
| Smattering | 15 answers |
| underprovided | 15 answers |
| Miscalculated | 16 answers |
| undersupplied | 17 answers |
| Not there | 18 answers |
| Hanker-ing | 18 answers |
| not bright | 18 answers |
| Using | 18 answers |
| Vitiated | 21 answers |
| worse | 21 answers |
| Daredevil | 21 answers |
| unconditioned | 21 answers |
| Few. | 22 answers |
| breakneck | 23 answers |
| skin and bone | 23 answers |
| besotted | 24 answers |
| amorphous | 26 answers |
| unpowered | 26 answers |
| Unguarded | 27 answers |
| Flawed | 29 answers |
| beggared | 31 answers |
| moderate capacity | 31 answers |
| infirm | 33 answers |
| Madcap | 33 answers |
| Minus | 33 answers |
| desirous | 35 answers |
| unfulfilled | 36 answers |
| Doting | 36 answers |
| Wrecked | 37 answers |
| unapt | 37 answers |
| Scarce | 38 answers |
| schlock | 39 answers |
| Impecunious | 40 answers |
| Voracious | 40 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTEAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with WANTING (5)
Goe whither Fate and inclination strong Leads thee, I shall not lag behinde, nor erre The way, thou leading, such a sent I draw Of carnage, prey innumerable, and taste The savour of Death from all things there that live: Nor shall I to the work thou enterprisest Be wanting, but afford thee equal aid.
The Fox quickly picked it up, and thus addressed the Crow: “My good Crow, your voice is right enough, but your wit is wanting.” The Two Dogs A MAN had two dogs: a Hound, trained to assist him in his sports, and a Housedog, taught to watch the house.
Boldwood wanting to see you, Miss Everdene.” A woman’s dress being a part of her countenance, and any disorder in the one being of the same nature with a malformation or wound in the other, Bathsheba said at once,— “I can’t see him in this state.
And who, by your favour, Sir, may be the father of yonder babe—it is some three or four months old, I should judge—which Mistress Prynne is holding in her arms?” “Of a truth, friend, that matter remaineth a riddle; and the Daniel who shall expound it is yet a-wanting,” answered the townsman.
She had been interested in Caesar’s “Commentaries” when she left school to begin teaching, and she loved to read about great generals; but these facts would scarcely explain her wanting that grim bald head to share her daily existence.
Quotes with WANTING (3)
Maybe the first time you saw her you were ten. She was standing in the sun scratching her legs. Or tracing letters in the dirt with a stick. Her hair was being pulled. Or she was pulling someone's hair. And a part of you was drawn to her, and a part of you resisted--wanting to ride off on your bicycle, kick a stone, remain uncomplicated. In the same breath you felt the strength of a man, and a self-pity that made you feel small and hurt. Part of you thought: Please don't look…
But then again, that's what the Book of Job was about to her, a cautionary tale about wanting there to be a God, wanting there to be someone who could enact what a God could enact, or who could sanction what the Devil would do. You want this, people? You want these kinds of powers? No, you don't, and here's why, and here's why it's sheer vanity to want them in any other entity. Look what sort of violence would rain down. Poor Job, sure, poor Job with his hives and his financi…
Gods are but greater demons," the Cishaurim said, "hungers across the surface of eternity, wanting only to taste the clarity of our souls. Can you not see this?
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, USA TODAY.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2008–2010).