grasping

/'grɑ:spiɳ/
Adjective
  1. 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
Noun
  1. the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles)
  2. understanding with difficulty
    • the lecture was beyond his most strenuous graspings

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