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covetous: showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages; "he was never covetous before he met her"; "jealous of his success and covetous of his possessions"; "envious of their art collection"

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desirous of collapse

grudging collapse: petty or reluctant in giving or spending; "a niggardly tip"; of especially an attitude; "gave grudging consent"; "grudging acceptance of his opponent's victory"

possessive collapse: desirous of owning; "small children are so possessive they will not let others play with their toys"; having or showing a desire to control or dominate; "a possessive parent"; serving to express or indicate possession; "possessive pronouns"; "the genitive endings"

money mad collapse

money hungry collapse

unslakeable collapse

unsated collapse: not having been satisfied

jealous collapse: suspicious or unduly suspicious or fearful of being displaced by a rival; "a jealous lover"

hungry collapse: feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food; "a world full of hungry people"

invidious collapse

grabby collapse

gobbling collapse

selfish collapse: concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others; "Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights"- Maria Weston Chapman

unquenchable collapse

unappeasable collapse

avaricious collapse: 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 greedier"; "prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees"

venal collapse

insatiable collapse

envious collapse

rapacious collapse: excessively greedy and grasping; "a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"; "ravening creditors"; "paying taxes to voracious governments"

acquisitive collapse: eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas; "an acquisitive mind"; "an acquisitive society in which the craving for material things seems never satisfied"

avid collapse: marked by active interest and enthusiasm; "an avid sports fan"; "a great walker"; "an eager beaver"; (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous; "avid for adventure"; "an avid ambition to succeed"; "fierce devouring affection"; "the esurient eyes of an avid curiosity"; "greedy for fame"

piggish collapse

devouring collapse

hoggish collapse: resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy; "piggish table manners"; "the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father"; "swinish slavering over food"

ravenous collapse

mercenary collapse: a person hired to fight for another country than their own

omnivorous collapse: feeding on both plants and animals

voracious collapse

greedy collapse: wanting to eat or drink more than one can reasonably consume; "don't be greedy with the cookies"

miserly collapse

bottomless collapse: unclothed especially below the waist or featuring such nudeness; "bottomless dancers"; "a bottomless bar"; extremely deep; "a bottomless pit"; "a bottomless lake"; having no apparent limits or bounds; "a bottomless supply of money"; "bottomless pockets"; having no bottom; "bottomless pajamas consisting simply of a long top opening down the front"

unsatisfied collapse

swinish collapse

limitless collapse

grasping collapse: the act of gripping something firmly with the hands; understanding with difficulty; "the lecture was beyond his most strenuous graspings"

eager collapse: having or showing keen interest or intense desire or impatient expectancy; "eager to learn"; "eager to travel abroad"; "eager for success"; "eager helpers"; "an eager look"

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