starved for

idiom

chiefly US

: badly in need of being given (something needed for one's emotional well-being)

Those children are starved for attention.

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The rating never came though — Prey played too fast and loose with comics canon to court fans still starved for authentic adaptations, yet leaned on comics references hard enough to possibly alienate newcomers. —

Joshua Rivera, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2024 The researchers believe the surprising findings suggest Delle, starved for social interaction, might be talking to himself. —

Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 14 Feb. 2023 Meanwhile the Pentagon is starved for high-tech talent. —

Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024 The sequel isn’t totally starved for fresh ideas, conceptual or thematic; for one, the rules governing its hellish setting — a symbolic column of class warfare, like the Snowpiercer flipped on its side — have been tweaked. —

A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for starved for