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Meanings of grasping in inglés
Immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth.
Related terms
The act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles)
Sinónimos
Examples for "greedy"
Examples for "greedy"
1
Superefficient engines that were kept off the market by greedy energy companies.
2
However, when we paid piles of peanuts, we simply got greedy monkeys.
3
A greedy algorithm approach was used to conduct the propensity score match.
4
There was one of her family in particular that was especially greedy.
5
Simple in his tastes, and yet very vain and greedy of applause.
1
The major powers are covetous of top jobs at the United Nations.
2
The covetous prodigal is of all others the worst man in society.
3
It is a covetous grasping, a recognition that the other is indispensable.
4
In all this there is nothing of a self-seeking or covetous kind.
5
The duty not to contrive through a covetous heart to despoil another.
1
Greed, sometimes sat in the councils, and the avaricious bent the rules.
2
Though avaricious, it was in order to spend and not to hoard.
3
But they are avaricious and envious, Tomas; and Mammon hath corrupted them.
4
An avaricious smile of satisfaction drew down the corners of his lips.
5
He was avaricious, but avarice was the great sin of his times.
1
The prehensile way the long feet controlled the motion of the swing.
2
Not all the monkeys of America possess this prehensile power of tail.
3
Strange-seehow small it is-andbroad, how prehensile the toes-almost like fingers.
4
All prehensile-tailed monkeys are American, but all American monkeys are not prehensile-tailed.
5
The seahorses wrapped their prehensile tails around our fingers and hung on.
1
I mean, what if you get all grabby and whiney on me?
2
VW's seven-speed dual-clutch automatic is fluid at cruising speed but grabby when parking.
3
Pity the story isn't quite as grabby as the head, though.
4
While you might not be grabby, it's certainly no challenge to trip you either.
5
The band opened with three from the new record, but none was particularly grabby.
Usage of grasping in inglés
1
The man was openly exultant; he stood for Demos grasping the sceptre.
2
The act of Fred Linden in grasping the limb saved his life.
3
The wild blood in her leaped at the thought of grasping happiness.
4
This will teach thee caution in judgment and accuracy in grasping subjects.
5
The players form in a circle, grasping the hands of their neighbors.
6
It's clearly a fantastic opportunity and they're grasping it with both hands.
7
Already some unknown individual is grasping the lemon in his unwilling fingers.
8
Or, if it does, it sees no political dividend in grasping reform.
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The universal wish to realize is only typified by the grasping gain.
10
He rose, grasping in his teeth the kreel of weed and shells.
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Employers are also grasping the great possibilities for them in this theory.
12
Great wonder, and the stir of a grasping tenderness was in Richard.
13
Agent Williams leaned forward, grasping the dashboard to get a better look.
14
People who are partially sighted often have difficulty grasping a complete image.
15
Vivian Standish grasping the back of a chair, stared in furious amazement.
16
His arms, prevented from grasping Mrs Fox's, hang at his sides, useless.
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Grasping through the time
Grasping across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common
Ireland
Less common