grasping
noun1
The act of one who grasps or covets.
- These are my connections, my attachments. Maybe all I really am is the sum of all these connections, these fearful longings and graspings.2009, Jed McKenna, Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment:
grasping
adjUS /ˈɡɹæspɪŋ/ · UK /ˈɡɹɑːspɪŋ/
1
Greedy, eager for wealth.
- Just how, Agamemnon, great field marshal . . . most grasping man alive, how can the generous Argives give you prizes now? I know of no troves of treasure, piled, lying idle, anywhere.1990, Robert Fagles, transl., The Iliad:
- Derived terms
- graspingly, graspingness, overgrasping, straw-grasping