Graspingly
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
In a grasping manner; covetously; rapaciously.
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adverb.
In a
grasping
manner.
Word Usage
"With elegance so well attended to by Genaux and Tarver, it fell to the two spoiled sisters, Clorinda and Tisbe and (in this opera) their bumbling and graspingly nasty father, Don Magnifico, to supply the buffoonery."