Needy in a sentence as a noun

Instead of, you know, helping the truly needy get health care?

I'd suggest using the extra money to send needy kids to the computer camp.

The toasters in question aren't "needy", they are efficient.

On my phone, the first thing I saw was a bunch of share buttons with some needy, manipulative copy to get me to click them.

There is a lot of elitism, but it is often a needy Mensa-like elitism.

This man is needy garbage who doesn't rate any more attention from the industry that enabled his earlier ********.

Needy in a sentence as an adjective

They don't give a single **** about charity or helping the needy or community contributions or anything like that.

Relative to the rest of society, children of parents who can afford an iPad are probably the least needy re educational tools.

That approach is basically how welfare began -- by defining the needy population as "poor, single moms" -- and it actively grew the population of poor single moms.

But I don't enjoy paying my taxes to inefficient institutions, or institutions that spend my tax money primarily to benefit insiders rather than the needy.

They believe themselves incapable of working in real jobs, they signal this incapability, and employers generally hate working with them because they're needy and unprofessional.

Needy definitions

noun

needy people collectively; "they try to help the needy"

adjective

poor enough to need help from others

See also: destitute impoverished indigent necessitous poverty-stricken

adjective

demanding or needing attention, affection, or reassurance to an excessive degree