Synonym: deficient, lacking, missing, nonexistent, wanting(a), wanting. Similar words: panting, quarantine, hunting, elephantine, glinting, parenting, contingent, accounting. Meaning: ['wɑntɪŋ /'wɒn-] adj. 1. not existing 2. inadequate in amount or degree.
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151. I knocked at the first house, wanting to ask if I could sleep in the courtyard.
152. Any reader wanting the right detector to suit his pocket and plenty of sound advice is welcome to give me a ring.
153. Site certificates are for companies wanting to sell goods and services over the World Wide Web.
154. She sank deep down again, unable to stay alert, and saw without wanting to a giant Catherine-wheel in the sky.
155. The following detailed breakdown is designed to help those wanting to fund out more about awards available in a particular sector.
156. His heat scorched her, and unbearably stretched nerves urged her to turn and put an end to this agony of wanting.
157. In the subway I got cornered by the inevitable drunkard wanting to give me some advice.
158. The government is offering special tax incentives to people wanting to start up small businesses.
159. I kept wanting to relax and take a good look at the garden but something isn't quite working.
160. It is particularly popular with Interior Designers wanting to create original effects for their specialist clientele.
161. She hadn't rejected him the first time, though, just evaded a decision, wanting him to strengthen it somehow.
162. She bit her lip, wanting to cry, but too proud.
163. The policy has been severely tested over the last 16 months and has been found wanting.
164. Corbett allowed their conversation to be as desultory as possible, wanting his companion to relax and feel safe in his presence.
165. A few days or weeks of not wanting to think about it will do no harm.
166. Other than wanting local authority control of further education, Labour has no policy on that matter either.
167. Borrowers wanting to transfer debts to the egg credit card would pay 2.5 APR on all transfers before January 31, 2001.
168. Wondering about grasshopper eyes, about segregated schools, wanting to know more about this journey to the West looking for work.
169. They saw themselves as wanting to get on with the teaching of their subject.
170. He sat by Abigail's cot, not wanting to remember, but knowing that now he must.
171. Audrey is shown as wanting independence, but in practice usually failing.
172. In fact the conditional theory adopts some of the best points of several of the theories found wanting in the previous chapter.
173. These would be commercial travellers, wanting to write up their order books in peace.
174. What is the right shopping environment that keeps customers happy and wanting to return?
175. The company wanting to build the plant has reported massive pre-tax losses.
176. The Department of the Environment said it was looking at the legal position of local authorities wanting to control parties.
177. The air is thick with dust, accumulated over years of not-remembering(Sentence dictionary), years of not wanting to know.
178. I was not alone in wanting to get private investment into public-sector industries.
179. My mum is mad wanting a bloke like the baboon.
180. Steadfastly, she avoided his gaze, not wanting to give him an opportunity for some deflating remark.
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