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

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lupine collapse: any plant of the genus Lupinus; bearing erect spikes of usually purplish-blue flowers; of or relating to or characteristic of wolves

clinging collapse

closefisted collapse: unwilling to part with money

raptorial collapse: relating to or characteristic of birds of prey; "raptorial claws and bill for seizing prey"

gripping collapse

covetous collapse: 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"

predatory collapse: living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey; "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf"; "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste for offal"

self-centered collapse

itching palm collapse

prehensile collapse: adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object; "a monkey's prehensile tail"; having a keen intellect; "poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men"- A.T.Quiller-Couch

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"

cupidity collapse

money hungry collapse

money mad collapse

unsated collapse: not having been satisfied

unslakeable collapse

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

egotistic collapse: characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance

egotistical collapse

voracity collapse

rapacity collapse

grabby collapse

narcissistic 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

desirous collapse: having or expressing desire for something; "desirous of high office"; "desirous of finding a quick solution to the problem"

itchy collapse: causing an irritating cutaneous sensation; being affect with an itch; "he had an itchy toe from the mosquito bite"

unappeasable collapse

predacious collapse: hunting and killing other animals for food

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"

avidity collapse

self-indulgent collapse: indulgent of your own appetites and desires; "a self-indulgent...way of looking at life"- Havelock Ellis

venal collapse

extortionate collapse

insatiable collapse

self-serving collapse: interested only in yourself

envious collapse

self-seeking collapse

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

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