neediness

No longer just breaking stuff for no good reason, they were now pleading for our understanding—sometimes, as in Phillips’ Joker, with the cloying neediness of a thrift-store clown painting.
From Cruella to Maleficent to the Joker: Is It Time to Retire the Villain Origin Story?|Stephanie Zacharek|May 26, 2021|Time
During the exhausting 1992 campaign I was asked if Clinton got tired of the crowds: their neediness, their wide-eyed lunging.
Paul Begala on Why Bill Clinton’s Still Got the Magic|Paul Begala|October 10, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Each performance had its set of demands—a lightness in one, an unlikely neediness in another.
Kathleen Turner's New Broadway High|Kevin Sessums|April 17, 2011|DAILY BEAST
This emotional neediness was brilliantly parodied in the Austin Powers films with Dr. Evil.
Villains as Fashion Heroes|Sean Macaulay|July 8, 2010|DAILY BEAST

But in our day it is necessity, neediness, that prevails, and lends a degraded humanity under its iron yoke.
The Aesthetical Essays|Friedrich Schiller
After a short experience of three weeks Comte returned to neediness and contentment.
Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3)|John Morley
But everywhere the ill-assorted marriage of pretentiousness and neediness was apparent.
The Historical Nights' Entertainment|Rafael Sabatini

British Dictionary definitions for neediness

neediness

/ (ˈniːdɪnɪs) /

noun

the state of being needy; poverty

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