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• a  having or expressing desire for something
  desirous of high office
  desirous of finding a quick solution to the problem

• NEWSPAPER MAN of thirty-one years' experience is desirous of job.
• General Crowder, famed author of the 1917 conscription act, has been for some time desirous of returning to private life.
• Neighbors likely sneered that Anne inspired the poem's "desirous older woman" with a boy husband.

• wishful

• undesirous

News & Articles

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• Alice Saga's Wonderland
  I shambled after as usual as I've been doing all my life after people that interest me, because the only people that interest me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yearn or say a commonplace thing...but burn, burn, burn like roman candles across the night.- From the original manuscript of On the Road by ...
  Aug. 30, 2013 - StyleBistro
• A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
  Immortalizing Riverside’s Imprints of “The Golden Dream” The golden dream has always existed within the desirous minds of Americans. It’s stated on the Statue of Liberty herself, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”…
  July 3, 2013 - Inland Empire Weekly

Quotes

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• Kenneth Pollack in Guardian Unlimited
  They see it as being dominated by chauvinistic Shiite warlords at least allied with Iran, and desirous of reducing the Sunni community to a powerless minority,Pollack said.
• Rush Limbaugh in Times Herald-Record
  Limbaugh added: "Sorry to say this, I don't think he's been that good from the get-go. I think what we've had here is a little social concern in the NFL. The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well. There is a little hope...
• Hillary Rodham Clinton in Washington Post
  I don't know about that,Clinton said, before saying she recalled seeing stories about teenage girls videotaping themselves bullying other girls. "What kind of lessons are they getting at home that they are so desirous of seeing themselves...