Synonym: destitute, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, poverty-stricken. Similar words: greedy, need, needs, needle, remedy, tragedy, neem, knee. Meaning: ['nɪːdɪ] n. needy people collectively. adj. 1. poor enough to need help from others 2. demanding or needing attention, affection, or reassurance to an excessive degree.
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31. Under the changes, needy and elderly people and those who currently get free prescriptions on medical grounds will remain exempt.
32. In contrast to her daughter, Cynthia is volatile, hyper-emotional and needy, inverting stereotypical images of racial difference.
33. We distribute the book to charities, and those organization in turn give the books to needy children.
34. The food went to the Wellspring Soup Kitchen in Stockport, and to needy families in the area.
35. The supermarket donated a year's supply of groceries to one needy family.
36. As well providing a chance to win a new drill you will be helping some of Britain's needy children.
37. However popular the school might be at any moment, many of the students were needy and on scholarship.
38. She is known to have helped the sick in the hospitals of Rome and to have given generously to the needy.
39. While ministering to the needy, a cancerous growth on his foot spread.
40. It is recorded that he spent his income on the needy and for pious endeavors.
41. In fact, thrift-store regulars complain that mainstream shoppers have driven some prices up out of reach of the needy.
42. She burned money as sacrifices to needy gods and refused no petitioner her unique counsel.
43. Both professional and recreational skaters will compete, with proceeds earmarked for scholarships for needy Pima Community College Students.
44. In convulsed countries around the world, too much food donated by well-meaning people feeds murderous gunmen instead of needy families.
45. Or, thirdly, arrangements whereby the needy are increasingly looked after by voluntary and charitable activities.
46. Potatoes INSTEAD of destroying their bumper crop of potatoes, farmers should give them to the needy.
47. Our aim: to bring help and comfort to poor, hungry, sick and needy children throughout the world.
48. Thus state day nurseries became confined very largely to the children of poor and needy parents, often single parents.
49. The needy themselves, buoyed up by economic boom, have been happy to go along.
50. It all went to needy charities, both at home and in the Third World.
51. The most needy include well-educated refugees who are older than 55 and have arrived here in the past decade.
52. It would be prohibitively expensive to chop that ice up and ship it to needy regions.
53. It has inspired legions of compassionate men and women to minister to the needy in times of famine, war and pestilence.
54. The church program provides food and clothing for the needy.
55. People will be compelled to spend the money on the truly needy recipients and not on administrative costs.
56. The New York City officials were found in contempt of court for failing to find shelter quickly enough for needy families.
57. We feel a keen sense of responsibility for the sick and needy.
58. The number of needy Americans seeking emergency food and shelter increased by 7% last year.
59. Spreading the benefits too thinly, however,(http://sentencedict.com/needy.html) might undermine the viability of the most needy practices.
60. Although this godsend might do palpable good for needy individuals and worthy institutions, I feel that it is still somehow unclean.