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She really got the ditziness of Louise’s character and the wanting-to-please element.

So many girls are idolizing these models and wanting to look like them.

He posted on Facebook about wanting to do something “right” and meaningful.

But throughout all this, Malone describe herself as “oddly responsible,” wanting to help her moms pay the bills as young as 10.

The vast majority of New Yorkers seem to disagree, wanting the Santas gone for good.

Which was sweet and also troubling, because it meant that I have never shut up about wanting to be Peter Pan.

Around the table were seated about twenty persons, amongst whom the usual sprinkling of sacerdotes was not wanting.

Gottschal knew perfectly well what was wanting, but he wished to have a little fun out of the matter.

I should judge from what I see and feel that shade is seldom wanting here, except as a shield from the rain.

Work was not wanting also in repairing and roofing the buildings and the mill, abandoned since our return in 1607.

Yet here it appears to be the one thing wanting to give success to that despair of aeronauts, military ballooning.

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On this page you'll find 86 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to wanting, such as: deficient, unfulfilled, absent, bankrupt, cooked, and deprived.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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