want
verb (used with object)
to feel a need or a desire for; wish for.
wantlessness
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a word derived from
want.
Example Sentences
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"The damned wantlessness of the poor," about which Oscar Wilde complained, the cry for a little more fodder, gives way to an insistence upon the chance to be interested in life.
From A Preface to Politics by Walter Lippmann
