grabby

1 “Between Two Windows” is sort of like one of those money booth games at a birthday party or casino where dollar bills blow about, promising rewards to the grabby and clever.

2 Your co-worker would seem less grabby if she hadn’t started this discussion about her own gift.

3 A woman from the U.K. is upset about her mother-in-law’s habit of sending out wish lists, calling the move childish and “grabby.”

4 The children got so used to his toad face and grabby hands, they began calling him Tio CapitSn and asking to hold his gun and ride on his knee horse.

5 Unlike at Gianinetti Ranch, here willows and barbed-wire fences kept a fisherman from much of the river, unless he waded upstream through the grabby current.

6 By the time I'm done dealing with my little ones and their constant need for mommy and then my husband acting like a grabby teen, I want to just shut down.

7 "Spend it better" isn't exactly a grabby slogan, but it's got more appeal than "sorry, I'm not raising tax any more and the economy is bleak so you'll have to make do".

8 Mr. Scorsese draws some modest, uneasy comedy from the linguistic and cultural differences between the priests and their congregation, as when a grabby, highly agitated woman begs the rather startled Garupe to hear her confession.

9 A group of Australian golfers had their game interrupted by a grabby coconut crab, and it cost one man a golf club.

10 Peckinpah’s notion that mercy and virtue may be outmoded ideas in the hectic, grabby sprawl of the 20th century has ossified into prophecy as we’ve rolled into the 21st.

11 In certain regen settings, this can make the brakes feel grabby toward the end of a stop, particularly with the M Sport brakes, which have more initial bite and 14.7-inch front rotors instead of 13.7-inchers.

12 She described herself as "the queen of couch Olympics" -- the only sidewalk exercise that Ms. Lau usually gets involves posing for street-style photographers in one of her grabby ensembles.

13 The authors’ nearly perfect solution is a pastiche Caribbean score whose words are restrained and delicately rhymed but whose music is relentlessly grabby and emotional.

14 Not in our house; the magnets were never strong enough and the kids were too grabby.

15 In the grabby haze of Christmas shopping, it seems completely logical to get Mom a Fitbit, and your little brother an Anki Drive, because obviously, everyone needs a robot.

16 Its centerpiece is a duet for the alluring Daphne Fernberger and Christopher Kaiser, but Mr. Duato’s grabby partnering is all dry mechanics.

17 Trump's announcement was a tad more interesting than the mad rush for Taylor Swift tickets and much less grabby than a big soccer tournament.

18 She and the Creature eventually conspire to lop off that grabby assailant’s hand to replace a decaying limb.

19 Also, one grabby little boy had, in an ensuing ruckus, lost some teeth.

20 But feel free to remind your grabby friend that you’re ready for that birthday lunch now!

1 贪婪

hungry greedy sordid grasping rapacious miserly covetous gluttonous lupine avaricious piggish wolfish vulturine openmouthed hoggish avidly greedily voraciously ravenously wolfishly avariciously covetously greed avarice greediness avidity cupidity rapacity voracity greedy as a wolf avid gutsy ravenous acquisitive lickerish itching palm voracious accipitral swinish concupiscent gripple accipitrine devouringly esurience esuriency gulosity Jewish itchy cormorant prehensile open-mouthed vulturous wolvish esurient hogly itching sordor hoggery hog

2 贪心不足的

grasping gripple

3 贪得无厌的

avaricious unsated vulturine itching

4 贪心的

greedy

5 贪心

greedy greed cupidity

6 贪婪的

hungry greedy sordid grasping rapacious miserly covetous gluttonous lupine avaricious piggish wolfish vulturine openmouthed hoggish greedy as a wolf gutsy acquisitive esurient kiasu lickerish avid ravenous voracious accipitral swinish concupiscent gripple accipitrine Jewish itchy cormorant prehensile open-mouthed vulturous wolvish hogly itching

7 紧紧抓住

cling clench freeze on to