prehensile, adj.
immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1
avaricious covetous grabby grasping greedy prehensile
sample sentences
"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"
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semantic pointers
similar to
adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object
<adj.all>
prehensile
having a keen intellect
<adj.all>
prehensile
sample sentences
"poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men"- A.T.Quiller-Couch
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