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Acquisitive
Answer for the clue "Acquisitive ", 6 letters:
grabby
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Word definitions for grabby in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. tending to grab especially rudely or needily
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1910, from grab (v.) + -y (2). Related: Grabbiness .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. 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 ...
Usage examples of grabby.
I was being systematically depersonalized by the whole educational apparatus at the University of California at Santa Barbara and all I heard from my parents day after day in letters, phone calls and telegrams was that I should transfer to the University of California at Santa Cruz, which they wanted me to do for their own selfish grabby reasons, probably tinged with incest.