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Acquisitive

adjective

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

... system tried that it proved other than a failure in the end? My dear Philippe, the future is to be read with certainty only in the past. Ab actu ad posse valet consecutio. Man never changes. He is always greedy, always acquisitive, always vile. I am speaking of ...

— Scaramouche - A Romance of the French Revolution • Rafael Sabatini

... drove to Queen's Gate, turning to Lady Davenant in her distress in order to turn somewhere. Her old friend was at home and by extreme good fortune alone; looking up from her book, in her place by the window, she gave the girl as she came in a sharp glance over her glasses. This glance was acquisitive; she said nothing, but laying down her book stretched out her two gloved hands. Laura took them and she drew her down toward her, so that the girl sunk on her knees and in a moment hid her face, sobbing, in the old woman's lap. There was ...

— A London Life; The Patagonia; The Liar; Mrs. Temperly • Henry James

... all myself, Mickey," explained Douglas. "I happened to select a father who was of an acquisitive turn of mind. He left me enough that I can have a comfortable living in ...

— Michael O'Halloran • Gene Stratton-Porter

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