acquisitive

How To Use acquisitive In A Sentence

• Prescription (a slight modification of the older usucaption) is the dispensing with evidence of title, and is acquisitive when it is the means of acquiring Ownership and extinctive (divestitive) when it bars a right of action. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
• I have a tolerable "acquisitiveness" among my other organs, but think I would rather get than keep money, and to earn would always be pleasanter to me than to save. Records of a Girlhood
• His jealous competitors frequently accuse he of be too acquisitive or of taking apart theirs trade.
• Life is just one big vain, greedy, acquisitive, covetous, furious orgy - and then you die.
• What we are dealing with is serious acquisitive crime - the basis for which is money. Times, Sunday Times
• She was a shrewd judge of character; so was her acquisitive self-interest. Times, Sunday Times
• Hunt's acquisitive instincts far surpassed anything the Sublime Porte had in mind when it granted the firman.
• First of all, I've been really busy being "acquisitive" lately. Fashion World of SL
• Unfortunately, by the time they arrived, my tastebuds had changed their mind and started eyeing my Timothy's scrambled eggs in an acquisitive manner.
• And yet the picture represents the horse precisely as an English acquisition, as a sign of his aristocratic English owner's good taste and imperial acquisitiveness.