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单词 want-creating
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want-creating
want-creating adj. (a) that causes poverty (obsolete); (b) that creates desires, esp. for consumer products.
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1826 P. G. Patmore Rejected Articles 63 You would, in a month from the time you set foot in this want-creating city, have ten times as many to supply as you now have.
1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 651 The manifold, want-creating culture of modern European civilisation and education.
1969 P. Kilby Industrialization in Open Econ. iv. vii. 220 Want-creating advertisements.
2001 R. Zucker Democratic Distributive Justice x. 197 There was considerable ingenuity and taste in the product features, and these had a want creating effect.
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