hankering
/hˈæŋkɚɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.51 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- ""[…] You don't mean," Mr. Osborne continued, gathering wrath and astonishment as the thought now first came upon him; "you don't mean that he's such a d—— fool as to be still hankering after that swindling old bankrupt's daughter? […]""
- "One may say that hankering after naughty things is the very essence of the evil into which we have been precipitated by Adam's fall."
- "[T]here is a clear sense that Britain is hankering for a change at the top."
- "I found that he had dipped a little in chimerical studies and had a hankering after astrology and alchymy."
- "Mr. Hall thinks he has no personal hatred of Moore; he says he even likes to talk to him, and run after him, but he has a hankering that he should be made an example of."
- "But there was one yet - the biggest, the most blank, so to speak - that I had a hankering after."