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Desirous. Full of craving.

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Usage examples (12)
  • But at least you could have acted yearnful, as in, well, if I had the time, I'd watch The Sopranos.
  • It abounded in emotion, and was -- to use the impossible word Keats coined -- "yearnful."
  • This is the last of these letters to which one could apply so fitly the barbarous word “yearnful,” once coined by Keats.
  • It worked well so far as the administration of the remedy was concerned, but it was fatal to my little, high strung, yearnful dog.
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