graspingness

Example Sentences

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Even Buonarroto, who was the best of the brothers and dearest to his heart, hurt him by his graspingness and want of truth.

From The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti by Symonds, John Addington

Perhaps it was wicked graspingness to count upon two happinesses when one had been granted to me.

From Penelope Brandling A Tale of the Welsh coast in the Eighteenth Century by Lee, Vernon

The Italian bishops and barons, less superstitious than the Germans, and with greater reason to resent the domineering graspingness of Gregory, were ready to espouse the Emperor's cause.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes

It may have been Anna's graspingness, when four years of seniority gave her double my age, or Arthur's genial instinct for destructiveness, which drove me into such deep concealment of my dearest idols.

From An Englishwoman's Love-Letters by Housman, Laurence