grasping
adjective
greedy; avaricious.
graspingly
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a word derived from
grasping.
Example Sentences
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Gerwig’s “Little Women” leans into the book’s fluidities and contradictions, especially among the characters themselves, who are self-sacrificing and ethereal one moment and graspingly materialistic the next.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 18, 2019
I am supposed to tread lightly and pounce graspingly at the same time.
From Time Magazine Archive
The fact that law is no longer classified as a "nontraditional" occupation for women has not made our culture any less graspingly litigious or any more concerned with the rights of the underdog.
From Time Magazine Archive
The beautiful woman caught her breath graspingly, and every particle of color faded from her face.
From The Masked Bridal by Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
My fatal mistake last year, I think now, lay in my accepting what she gave me—accepting it so readily, so graspingly even.
From Marcella by Mrs. Humphry Ward
