neediness

How To Use neediness In A Sentence

• Far more, he subtly manages to make nerdiness and neediness appealing. He Makes 'White Rice' Funny
• He believes that conservatives tend to be people whose psychological needs went unmet in childhood, and who survived this early impoverishment by developing contempt for their own neediness.
• This is said with no self-pity at all: she has a horror of self-pity, of neediness and of anger – and especially, and always, of the thing they can lead to, proper depression – and that horror can tip into a slightly manic sort of cheerfulness. The Saturday interview: Caitlin Moran
• Partners exhibiting traits of control, manipulation, dishonesty and "neediness" or narcissism really do not need to be dated or married - and especially - to reproduce. April 2009
• After decades of instructing children not to talk to strangers, your activities are complicit in a prank where they are encouraged to approach strange men while advertising their financial neediness.
• Could there be a more splendid illustration of human neediness and myopia? Times, Sunday Times
• The maître d' looked so sympathetic at this display of luvvie neediness that I would not have been at all surprised if he had returned to the table carrying a cold compress with which to mop Callow's fevered brow.
• I think her "neediness" may keep other young women at bay. 1920's Interior Decorating
• It can make the money addict afraid of their own "neediness" because it makes them feel too out of control inside, so they hide it from others (and themselves) seeing it as weak and ugly. Dr. Tian Dayton: Money Addiction
• If you honestly set out to learn how to untangle your own snafus , you'll find that even people who shy away from raw neediness start offering advice.