Crossword clues for needier
needier
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Needy \Need"y\, a. [Compar. Needier; superl. Neediest.]
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Distressed by want of the means of living; very poor; indigent; necessitous.
Thou shalt open thy hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy in thy land.
--Deut. xv. 11.Spare the blushes of needy merit.
--Dr. T. Dwight. -
Necessary; requisite. [Obs.]
Corn to make your needy bread.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
a. (en-comparativeneedy)
WordNet
See needy
adj. poor enough to need help from others [syn: destitute, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, poverty-stricken]
Usage examples of "needier".
The little Verkan Vail snatched up his tiny needier, the storm trooper moved into one side of the dome and vanished.
The sigma-ray needier, which he carried, was the only weapon which could be used, under the circumstances.
Then, after checking the window-shielding and activating the outside view-screens, he lit a cheroot and sat down at the desk, his goblet and his needier in front of him, to wait until the servants were gone.
Vail, his needier already drawn, rayed the fellow dead before he could aim it, then saw that the two pseudo-policemen had drawn their needlers and were aiming in the direction of Salgath Trod.
Salgath Trod, at his desk in the library of his apartment, the brandy-goblet and the needier within reach, appeared.
Verkan Vail drew his needier, scanning the assemblage around the throne anxiously.
Verkan Vail shouted, in the First Level language, swinging the stubby muzzle of the blaster and the knob-tipped twin tubes of the needier to cover the group around the throne.
His rifle was a needier, able to spray two thousand high-velocity darts a minute.
Alfie thought, and he moved the muzzle of his needier in that direction, ready for an ambush if it should come.
He shouted a warning over the squad frequency and opened up with his needier before he hit the ground.
He had two magazines left for his needier, and he was making his ammunition count.
He could not return fire with the needier, for his attackers snapped into view, loosed their weapons, and were out of sight at a rate of speed he could not match.
In shape they were similar to the regulation needier, but much smaller.
No one had dared to actually touch him with anything more personal than a lance point, and his needier meant nothing to his hosts in any case.
The needier did not have to be aimed at a vital place to accomplish its effect.