Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a grasping manner; covetously; rapaciously.

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  • adverb In a grasping manner.

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Examples

  • With elegance so well attended to by Genaux and Tarver, it fell to the two spoiled sisters, Clorinda and Tisbe and (in this opera) their bumbling and graspingly nasty father, Don Magnifico, to supply the buffoonery.

    In performance: WCO's "Cenerentola" 2010

  • July 24, 2006, 5: 45 am download free texas hold em internet says: download free texas hold em internet overwhelmed! acquisitive graspingly? mandated

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Trademarking “Scholar”: 2004

  • Across all ages, a total of 6,363,325 votes had been cast in the most recent Big Brother final, but that figure does not take into account widespread multiple voting, so graspingly encouraged by Channel 4.

    The myth of reality TV 2006

  • Across all ages, a total of 6,363,325 votes had been cast in the most recent Big Brother final, but that figure does not take into account widespread multiple voting, so graspingly encouraged by Channel 4.

    Archive 2006-12-01 2006

  • A moment — and the darkness would reign in her as before; her eyes glower, her fingers feel out graspingly-how much? she would say.

    The Growth of the Soil 2003

  • All the assurance and confidence she had drawn from the idea that someone was behind Melnnes soured and dissolved as she wondered, blindly, graspingly, at who was behind Lafferty.

    Country of the Blind Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1997

  • Densher must be poor and Kate graspingly ambitious for money and position if they are to be put to work to deceive Milly Theale.

    Digging James Tintner, Adeline R. 1972

  • The Lord grant that I may at last become an obedient and truly teachable child; for that faculty, whatsoever it be, that asks vociferously, seems not to be the one which, as I.P. says, "_graspingly receives," _ but is rather a hinderance to its reception.

    A Brief Memoir with Portions of the Diary, Letters, and Other Remains, of Eliza Southall, Late of Birmingham, England Eliza Southall

  • My fatal mistake last year, I think now, lay in my accepting what she gave me -- accepting it so readily, so graspingly even.

    Marcella Humphry Ward 1885

  • Lilac bushes had passed all bounds, and took up room most graspingly.

    The End of a Coil Susan Warner 1852

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