The phrase "and desirous" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to express a strong wish or longing for something, often in a more formal or literary context.
Example: "She was both ambitious and desirous of achieving her dreams, never settling for less than her aspirations."
Alternatives: "and eager" or "and longing".
High-maintenance and desirous of attention to the end, she died in Charlotte, N.C., on March 19 , 2002
When Louise finds a photograph of herself, taken during her first marriage, she notices that her eyes, then, "looked hooded, and desirous, and empty".
On the other side, your spouse's philandering will cease to torment you and instead the whole episode will leave you disgusted and bored and desirous to get out.
After toiling so hard, nagged by self-doubt and desirous of professional affirmation, Mr. Axelrod is a portrait of born-again self-assurance and ease.
Service providers and direct care/support workers need to be less prudish, and start respecting the privacy and desirous needs of people with disabilities.
In many early documents they are described as poverty-stricken and desirous of self-improvement, and both characteristics seem to have persisted.
In his pieces, Shimoyama strives for his characters to appear "desirous and desirable" by toeing the line between being plucked from a fairy tale and appearing as a neighbor boy from down the street.
In his pieces, Shimoyama strives for his characters to appear "desirous and desirable" by toeing the line between being plucked from a fairy tale and appearing as a neighbor boy from down the street.
Devoted to much pleasure and luxury and greatly desirous of giving her court the brilliancy of a European court, Elizabeth prepared the way for Catherine.
"They were available and they were desirous, and we were available and we were desirous," he said.
Suzanne obviously dotes on him, and is very protective, and very desirous of introducing him to Don. (He's played, incidentally, by Marshall Allman, the actor who played Linc's doofy son L.J. in Prison Break, one of the great guilty pleasure TV shows of all time).
