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Graspingly

Grasping \Grasp"ing\, a.

  1. Seizing; embracing; catching.

  2. Avaricious; greedy of gain; covetous; close; miserly; as, he is a grasping man. -- Grasp"ing*ly, adv. -- Grasp"ing*ness, n.

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graspingly

adv. In a grasping manner.

Usage examples of "graspingly".

I’d never been graspingly ambitious, but only willing to do anything as well as I could.

Since Bryant was confined to his home by doctor's orders, it meant that Harker would have to visit the old man, and that meant entering a house where death seemed to hang heavy over the threshold, a house filled with graspingly impatient relatives of the venerable hero of space-travel's infancy.

I'd never been graspingly ambitious, but only willing to do anything as well as I could.

Her breasts, under the ruched bodice of her long dress, looked as graspingly enticing as ever.