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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
grabby
adjective: immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; "they are avaricious and will do anything for money"; "casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields"; "a grasping old miser"; "grasping commercialism"; "greedy for money and power"; "grew richer and greedier"; "prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees" [syn: {avaricious}, {covetous}, {grasping}, {greedy}, {prehensile}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
57 Moby Thesaurus words for "grabby": a hog for, acquiring, acquisitive, all-devouring, all-engulfing, avaricious, avid, bloodsucking, bottomless, coveting, covetous, desirous, devouring, esurient, extortionate, gluttonous, gobbling, grasping, greedy, hoggish, insatiable, insatiate, itchy, limitless, lupine, mercenary, miserly, money-hungry, money-mad, omnivorous, overgreedy, parasitic, piggish, predacious, predatory, prehensile, quenchless, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, ravenous, sharkish, slakeless, sordid, swinish, unappeasable, unappeased, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfied, unslakeable, unslaked, venal, voracious, vulturine, vulturous, wolfish
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