Sentence example with the word 'acquisitiveness'

acquisitiveness

Definition n. strong desire to acquire and possess

Last update: August 5, 2015


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True, she now agreed to recognise the independence of the Cisalpine, Ligurian, Helvetic and Batavian (Dutch) republics; but the masterful acquisitiveness of the First Consul and the weak conduct of Austrian and British affairs at that time soon made that clause of the treaty a dead letter.   [Please select]

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Over the astounding windfall the chubby fingers closed with a gesture suggesting generations of acquisitiveness.   [Please select]

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Here, too, it has a field for exercising its singular acquisitiveness.   [Please select]

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I explained that it would go by steam, and he began unscrewing the cap on the little boiler until he was distracted by the man-of-war, and with natural acquisitiveness started to take possession of that.   [Please select]

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He fastened upon me all the powers of inquisitiveness and acquisitiveness, and absorbed all I had learned in twenty years of the politics of this State.   [Please select]

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