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.
adj. 1. not existing 2. inadequate in amount or degree. 
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211. If women criminals are reluctant to publicise their activities, they are also often inaccessible to researchers wanting to record their histories.
212. He didn't really strike her as a particularly nosy person, just wanting to know things for the hell of it.
213. He'd marked her as he left, wanting to feel her fear.
214. You just might want to think about anyone wanting to charter any boat of yours, son.
215. These interlocutors, one assumes, were selected at random, for logical coherence in the set as a whole is wanting.
216. With regard to independence, Chas is shown as both wanting independence and in practice being independent.
217. The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried. G.K. Chesterton 
218. Corrupt border-officials collude with importers of dubious goods wanting to grease their way into the country.
219. Not only his injured arm, but his whole body throbbed with wanting her.
220. It goes with some people wanting to kick my head in.
221. They keep wanting to supply goods without going through the proper procedures.
222. That would be her neighbour wanting to chat for a few minutes.
223. Here the two are wanting - the right and the consideration.
224. But Labour councillors rebutted the Conservative group's allegation by accusing them of not wanting to face the truth.
225. There are words in the soul of a newborn baby,(http://sentencedict.com/wanting.html) wanting and waiting to be written. Toba Beta
226. Afterward, he lay beside her, not moving, not wanting to disturb the deep sleep into which Nina usually drifted.
227. She was rather like an injured animal, wanting to lick her wounds in peace and privacy.
228. So this was not the equivalent of a father wanting to pass on the passionate love of his hobby to his children.
229. Graham felt himself leaning forward, wanting to catch her reply.
230. Jack scratched at the porch door, wanting in.
231. He had another " discrepancy " about him . He was always wanting us to buy things.
232. Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.--Dale Carnegie.
233. It an exhilarating ride that will leave you wanting more and more.
234. We insist wanting his student to participate in this work.
235. He smiled, not wanting to put the man on the defensive.
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