needily
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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It is years since I started to read novels of group friendship so needily.
From The Guardian • Jul. 4, 2020
Something tells me "He's not a slob, he's a bad man" is on the way, which will be especially wounding for one who so needily gulps the people's approbation.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then God took man from the place of his creation and brought him into Paradise, for to work there, not to labor needily, but in delighting and recreating him, and that he should keep Paradise.
From Bible Stories and Religious Classics by Wells, Philip P.
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