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wangle v. scheme, plot, work out, contrive, manoeuvre, engineer,
manage, manipulate, machinate, Colloq fix, fiddle, work, pull
off, finagle, swing: I hear that you were able to wangle an
audience with the pope.
want v. 1 desire, crave, wish (for), long for, pine for, hope (for),
fancy, covet, hanker after, lust after, hunger for or after,
thirst for or after, yearn for, Colloq have a yen for: I want
you near me. Ignore his crying - he just wants some ice-cream.
Maybe he's crying because he wants to go. 2 need, lack, miss,
require, call for, demand, be deficient in, be or stand in want
or in need of, necessitate; be or fall short of: This engine
wants proper maintenance. The bottle wants only a few more drops
to fill it.
--n. 3 need, lack, shortage, deficiency, dearth, scarcity,
scarceness, insufficiency, scantiness, inadequacy, paucity: For
want of good writers, the literary quarterly diminished in size
and finally disappeared. 4 appetite, hunger, thirst, craving,
desire, fancy, wish, longing, yearning, hankering, demand,
necessity, requirement, requisite, prerequisite, Colloq yen:
She gave up trying to satisfy his wants. 5 poverty, need,
indigence, homelessness, destitution, privation, pauperism,
penury, neediness, impecuniousness: The civilized nations are
trying to solve the problems of want, which seem to increase
daily.
wanting adj. 1 deficient, inadequate, not up to par or expectations,
insufficient, leaving much to be desired, unsatisfactory,
unsatisfying, disappointing, second-rate, inferior, poor,
shabby, shoddy, flawed, faulty, imperfect, incomplete,
unfinished, defective, patchy, impaired, damaged, broken,
unsound: These robots were tested at the factory and were found
wanting. 2 absent, missing, lacking, short (of), US and
Canadian shy (of): What good is a banjo wanting its strings?
wanton adj. 1 immoral, dissolute, profligate, dissipated, depraved,
loose, promiscuous, lustful, licentious, lecherous, wild,
libidinous, lewd, lascivious, unchaste: She is a wanton hussy
who is no better than she ought to be. 2 abandoned,
unrestrained, undisciplined, ungoverned, ungovernable,
unmanageable, outrageous, immoderate, intemperate, untempered:
It is not the boy's fault, it is the wanton company he keeps. 3