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be hard up

VERB

need

Synonyms

STRONGEST

call for demand desire lack require

STRONG

claim covet crave exact hanker hunger long lust miss necessitate pine thirst wish yearn

WEAK

be deficient be deprived be down and out be in need of be in want be inadequate be needy be poor be short be without die for do without drive for feel a dearth of feel the necessity for feel the pinch go hungry have occasion for have occasion to have use for hurt for suffer privation yen for

Antonyms

STRONGEST

have not want

STRONG

abjure despise dislike give hate

WEAK

do not want

Example Sentences

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George laughs gruffly: “You lot must be hard up for heroes.”

From The Guardian • Jun. 11, 2018

The finding that loneliness can be contagious also caught some readers off-guard—wouldn't lonely souls be hard up for people to infect?

From Slate • Apr. 7, 2010

"He has four youngsters, and I knows they be hard up," he began.

From Labrador Days Tales of the Sea Toilers by Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir

Yes, Herr Amtshauptmann, and then I shall be hard up, for my affairs are in a bad way.

From In the Year '13 A Tale of Mecklenburg Life by Reuter, Fritz

A ghost must be hard up, one would think, to visit my Puggy; there ought to be an asylum for impoverished spectres.

From Peggy by Barry, Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze)

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