(superl.) Distressed by want of the means of living; very por; indigent; necessitous.
(superl.) Necessary; requiste.
Example Sentences:
(1) SPUN surveillance may prove too costly to be practical for general application, but it can serve as a means to identify needy children and estimate the prevalence of undernutrition in specific high-risk populations.
(2) By failing to address some of the flaws before escalating the number of assessments, the government is in grave danger of undermining the principle of helping people into work, and risks failing the most needy into the bargain.
(3) For example, one of Price’s 2015 proposals would have transformed Medicaid into a state block grant, similar to what happened to welfare through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program in the 1990s.
(4) Spurr said the inspection recognised progress had been made at Pentonville despite the challenges inherent in running a large, old prison with a highly transient and needy population.
(5) But he's got needy eyes, like Luis Suarez Old Shep.
(6) Indeed, we have been reminded recently of the abject poverty that many have fallen into, needing to use food banks or choose between "eating and heating" and the need for charitable institutions to step forward and help the needy.
(7) Updated at 7.06pm GMT 7.02pm GMT We're watching a video explaining how Water.org is fighting the water crisis by using 'water credits' or loans to needy households who don't have a clean supply of water or functional toilet facilities.
(8) "Americans would like their president to be sick and needy," explains James Zogby, head of the Arab American Institute and executive member of the Democratic executive committee.
(9) So that rightwing free market ideologues can open up all those markets that the US have been whining to the World Trade Organisation about for decades; for some ideological principal that says people should pay less tax and privately fund only the services they need and want, and screw the collective community if they cannot afford to pay their insurance; that puts money in the pockets of the very richest in society, while the very poorest will be expected to step up or die out; that any public provision will not be on the basis of the most needy, but on the basis of who those in control consider to be the most deserving.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Peter Dutton overheard joking with Tony Abbott about rising sea levels – link to video “If there’s one thing that should be remembered about Peter Dutton’s week, it’s that this is the week that he masterminded the plan to bring 12,000 needy people to this country,” Abbott said in Canberra.
(11) We conclude by addressing the obvious need for research and the necessity for maintaining our ethical responsibility both in scientific inquiry and in the treatment of needy individuals.
(12) The question, therefore, is not whether such costs should be met, but how they can be met in a way that best maintains and preserves the health of the needy while apportioning this cost equitably over all sectors of the American economy.
(13) "Americans would like their president to be sick and needy," explains James Zogby , head of the Arab American Institute and executive member of the Democratic Executive Committee.
(14) The study also found that PWAs who qualify only through the medically needy provisions have much shorter enrollment and lower lifetime Medicaid expenditures than other PWAs on Medicaid.
(15) For many would-be claimants, Welfare had become a ragged system where, however deserving or needy, they weren't poor enough to qualify for benefits, or the cash involved was too small to bother claiming.
(16) As the government has been warned repeatedly, services such as libraries and roads will be cut almost to oblivion, even as the bar for receiving care is raised to the point where all but the most needy are excluded.
(17) Despite charities reporting that demand for help has rocketed as a result of economic hardship and welfare cuts, some councils spent more money setting up and administering their welfare schemes than they gave to needy applicants.
(18) No-one is going to say, ‘Oh, be a proper woman, shut up’ The NIHR report recommends that the government should provide “appropriate investment in active labour markets”, adequate benefits to the needy, suicide risk training for frontline staff in the NHS, social services and advice sector and that funding should be available to agencies in areas badly hit by the recession.
(19) I'm all for adding sparkle to political prose, but not when it means casting one side as a woman, which equals slutty or needy or wrong-headed, which equals nothing like a man.
(20) The need to collect this information has been linked to a state-wide effort to target city nutritionally needy elderly for home-delivered meals.
Weedy
Definition:
(superl.) Of or pertaining to weeds; consisting of weeds.
(superl.) Abounding with weeds; as, weedy grounds; a weedy garden; weedy corn.
(superl.) Scraggy; ill-shaped; ungainly; -- said of colts or horses, and also of persons.
(a.) Dressed in weeds, or mourning garments.
Example Sentences:
(1) I set off down the still familiar regular path between the regularly spaced trees, finding weedy elder bushes bearing leaves.
(2) This locus is, however, highly polymorphic in weedy C. berlandieri populations of western North America.
(3) It's so easy, what with advergames , weedy regulation, ferocious lobbyists, monopolies, "regulatory capture", and with sugar and chips being so delicious, comforting, cheap, and all for sale seconds from a school gate near you.
(4) It's full of energy but perhaps could have done without the addition of a weedy brass section.
(5) Ed Miliband claimed that he and David were simply too weedy to fight.
(6) The government claims that tolls will only be charged by roads' new owners for new capacity, but that sounds distinctly like one of those weedy assurances given by politicians that, once yesterday's lunacy has become today's accepted practice, is swiftly forgotten (to these ears, it has a similar ring to all those early New Labour claims about strict limits on private involvement in the NHS, or what the likes of Nick Clegg have said about profit-making schools).
(7) You wait for the punchline on Nizlopi's JCB Song before realising, to your horror, that the weedy singing and naive lyric is not a Hoxton parody of outsider art but is meant to signify sincerity.
(8) Estate agents suggest sellers should try to: • Keep up external appearances: "To be greeted by a weedy drive and a facade covered in peeling paint is a death knell.
(9) There are no nasty oil-marks on the beach, nor weedy sewage outfalls.
(10) As a child he was weedy and introspective, a condition he cured by taking up boxing and rowing at Westminster School.
(11) For every weedy Peter Parker or Tony Stark sans Iron Man armour, there are armies of demigods looking ripped in latex and leather, many of them played by people called Chris.
(12) Facing a swaggering Conservative leadership that increasingly reveals a nasty bullying streak, Labour is tending to give off the anxious vibes of the weedy kid in the playground, eyes down, hands in its pockets, too ready for flight instead of fight.
(13) Livers from 4,501 deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) collected from a weedy habitat in northeastern California during 48 consecutive monthly samplings were examined microscopically for Taenia taeniaeformis larva.
(14) I'm not sure you'd want me to fight a pack of Daily Mail journalists to defend your honour, because I'm weedy and no good at sport, but I do a good line in creative swearing at sexist scumbags.
(15) I see Labour MPs and shadow ministers hold their heads in their hands, asking why strong popular policies emerge watered down, weedy and weak.
(16) The relatively weedy intellectual decided to attend the local gym.
(17) Its followup dramatises a school reunion, which gives weedy Brian and childhood sweetheart Jessica one last chance to get together.
(18) They stay home with their colonic irrigationists, and their weedy macrobiotic diets and their personal trainers and their status anxiety.
(19) Isozymes of leucine aminopeptidase (LAP) in leaf tissue of the cultivated chenopods (Chenopodium quinoa and C. nuttalliae) and their sympatric weedy relatives (C. hircinum and C. berlandieri) can be electrophoretically resolved into a sum total of five anodally migrating bands.