Crossword-Solution: DESIROUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Desirous | n. | Feeling desire; eagerly wishing; solicitous; eager to obtain; covetous. |
We have 40 clues for the answer “DESIROUS”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Wanting (with "of") | 1 answer |
| Strongly wishing to have | 1 answer |
| Eager to obtain | 1 answer |
| Wishing for | 2 answers |
| emulous | 2 answers |
| Prehensile ___ | 8 answers |
| grabby | 8 answers |
| Wistful | 9 answers |
| devouring | 11 answers |
| wishful | 11 answers |
| Fain | 13 answers |
| Aspiring | 16 answers |
| envying | 20 answers |
| hoarding | 20 answers |
| envious | 22 answers |
| possessive | 22 answers |
| Itchy | 23 answers |
| LONGING for | 24 answers |
| appetent | 25 answers |
| Athirst | 27 answers |
| Itching | 34 answers |
| Jealous | 36 answers |
| sheltering | 39 answers |
| Acquisitive | 40 answers |
| shielding | 40 answers |
| Defensive | 42 answers |
| grudging | 44 answers |
| maternal | 44 answers |
| Gluttonous | 44 answers |
| greedy | 45 answers |
| on heat | 46 answers |
| Covetous | 47 answers |
| grasping | 48 answers |
| Ambitious. | 55 answers |
| clinging | 64 answers |
| miserly | 64 answers |
| Lustful | 67 answers |
| Longing | 67 answers |
| Fearful | 72 answers |
| Wanting | 82 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTAEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DESIROUS (5)
Unwarie, and too desirous, as before, So now of what thou knowst not, who desir’st The punishment all on thy self; alas, Beare thine own first, ill able to sustaine His full wrauth whose thou feelst as yet lest part, And my displeasure bearst so ill.
From my childhood, I have been familiar with letters; and as I was given to believe that by their help a clear and certain knowledge of all that is useful in life might be acquired, I was ardently desirous of instruction.
HOPE “Faith, Madame!” said Sir Andrew, seeing that Marguerite seemed desirous to call her surly host back again, “I think we’d better leave him alone.
CONSERVATIVE, OR BOURGEOIS, SOCIALISM A part of the bourgeoisie is desirous of redressing social grievances, in order to secure the continued existence of bourgeois society.
This is the whole history of “My Prisons.” I have never declined paying the highway tax, because I am as desirous of being a good neighbor as I am of being a bad subject; and, as for supporting schools, I am doing my part to educate my fellow-countrymen now.
Quotes with DESIROUS (3)
I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs.
What is a secret? It is much more than knowledge shared with only a few, or perhaps only one another. It is power. It is a bond. It is a sign of deep trust, or the darkest threat possible. There is power in the keeping of a secret, and power in the revelation of a secret. Sometimes it takes a very wise man to discern which is the path to greater power. All men desirous of power should become collectors of secrets. There is no secret too small to be valuable. All men value the…
I sought her eye, desirous to read there the intelligence which I could not discern in her face or hear in her conversation; it was merry, rather small; by turns I saw vivacity, vanity, coquetry, look out through its irid, but I watched in vain for a glimpse of soul. I am no Oriental; white necks, carmine lips and cheeks, clusters of bright curls, do not suffice for me without that Promethean spark which will live after the roses and lilies are faded, the burnished hair grown…
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Appears in: NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1978–2015).