adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He possesses a good education and reading; he speaks well, and seems desirous of improving himself in Oratory.
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Margotte swept on, enormously desirous of doing good.
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The assembly, desirous to be persuaded, accepted this argument.
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There was a picture in her mind of short desirous legs and sunburnt heels.