neediness

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Recent Examples of neediness Kaitlin Olson made Dee’s own session a masterpiece of wide-eyed neediness, obsessively lying about her past and then demanding the shrink praise her for her acting prowess. — Dennis Perkins, Entertainment Weekly, 28 July 2026 Langley’s closest sonic predecessor, Kacey Musgraves, has long searched for transcendence—though in more woo-woo terms than Langley does, and with (on Musgraves’s lusty new album) the sort of neediness that often gets written off as cringe. — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 23 July 2026 Managers frequently mistake flexibility for a weak work ethic, mental health discussions for fragility, transparency for disrespect, and feedback requests for neediness. — Mark Murphy, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026 To play Duncan Park, the head of a data-mining company who’s desperate to join the upper tier of the tech industry hierarchy in the AMC drama The Audacity, Billy Magnussen has to find a deep well of neediness and striving. — Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 2 June 2026 Is Suzanna’s gloomy neediness all that different from Becky’s gold-digging manipulations? — Greg Evans, Deadline, 6 Apr. 2026 Fontana is wearing a little thin on me with the constant neediness for approval. — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2026 She was sandwiched between their needinesses. — Literary Hub, 5 Jan. 2026 On the second take, Russell’s bossy tone rubbed up nicely against the neediness of the moment. — Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for neediness
Noun
  • Far-right President Javier Milei's sweeping austerity measures, which have pushed millions of Argentines into poverty, could put him at odds with Leo, who has long championed the poor.
    — Carrie Kahn, NPR, 7 Nov. 2026
  • Support extends to local communities through partnerships with One Horizon, a non-profit focused on poverty alleviation and women's empowerment, and the historic Nondies Rugby Club, Kenya's oldest rugby team.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Nov. 2026
Noun
  • While some issues are clearly partisan — including the country’s current economic misery, the long-running war in Iran and the attacks on the Affordable Care Act — others are grounded in basic decency.
    — Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Nov. 2026
  • But the stand-alone fragment, in the seeming spirit of Franz Kafka’s surreal and unsettling fiction, links success to misery, and happiness to death.
    — Robert S. Levine, The Conversation, 26 Oct. 2026

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“Neediness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/neediness. Accessed 9 Nov. 2026.

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