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hanker

verb as in desire

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Love brings exactly the type of fresh-faced diversity the GOP, and by extension, She-PAC desperately hanker for.

I've seen just enough of flying fishes to hanker after Mandalay, just enough of Spaniards to long for a sight of Spain.

"I don't hanker much after the dry job of pumping the colonel," he added, winking at Clifford significantly.

What I really hanker for is to be a painter; and of portraits, on the whole, I think.

I certainly do hanker for about four or five little curly-headed rascals to take on my knee.

If there was one thing he did hanker after, it was southernwood; but he couldn't see her grubbin' up things that way.

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On this page you'll find 42 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to hanker, such as: crave, itch, yearn, ache, covet, and hunger.

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

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