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Acquisitive   /əkwˈɪzətɪv/   Listen
Acquisitive

adjective
1.
Eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas.  "An acquisitive society in which the craving for material things seems never satisfied"



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"Acquisitive" Quotes from Famous Books



... it softened the face out of character, destroyed that intensity which the central massing of the brow denoted; and when the smile was deleted the face lost all its brilliance, became merely intense, concentrated, racial, acquisitive perhaps, clearly not Mr. Baruch's face. Ultimately the sculptor succeeded in wedding a smile to that brow, and the bust went on exhibition with those of Wilson, Foch, House, Clemenceau, and the others; but the union was never more than a compromise, a marriage ...
— The Mirrors of Washington • Anonymous


Words linked to "Acquisitive" :   grabby, unacquisitive, acquire, predacious, predaceous, possessive, predatory, ravening, greedy, grasping, prehensile, rapacious, avaricious, sordid, voracious, covetous, accumulative, plundering


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