grasping
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(s) immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth
- they are avaricious and will do anything for money
- casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields
- a grasping old miser
- grasping commercialism
- greedy for money and power
- grew richer and greedier
- prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees
Nouns
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(n) understanding with difficulty
- the lecture was beyond his most strenuous graspings
- (n) the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles) prehension, taking hold, seizing,