Sentence example with the word 'acquisitive'

acquisitive

a hog for, bottomless, egotistical, grasping, limitless, overgreedy, rapacious, self-besot, self-interested, selfish, unsated

Definition adj. eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas

Last update: August 15, 2015


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The child has an acquisitive mind.   [Please select]

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While I am somewhat acquisitive and can afford to buy anything I want, I try to only purchase things I need.    [Please select]

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The company has grown so big and profitable we have become acquisitive and now purchase smaller firms.   [Please select]

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Under the Roman peace they lost their warlike and nomadic habits, and were a sober, acquisitive, orderly people, wholly intent on trade and agriculture (Strabo xvi.   [Please select]

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They had abilities enough, but the sane acquisitive gift was not in them.   [Please select]

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[Illustration: HECTOR MCKAYE WAS BRED OF AN ACQUISITIVE RACE.   [Please select]

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The whole world of human interests was assigned to it as its province (_The Acquisitive Society_).   [Please select]

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"] [Footnote 56: "Its acquisitive nature works rapidly in the sleep of the law.   [Please select]

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It might be truer to say I was born acquisitive and too mental.   [Please select]

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He was a little keen man, with, a thin face and prominent nose; not ill-looking, but extremely acquisitive, I should say.   [Please select]

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Fishes remind me rather of Chinese, who are also a cold-blooded race: slow, watchful, inquisitive, acquisitive, and full of the sense of humour.   [Please select]

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