How To Use acquisitiveness In A Sentence
- 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
- 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.
- We rejected the acquisitiveness of our parents' generation.
- For those entering the workforce, acquisitiveness and competition too frequently eclipse other philosophical and religious values, including that of the greater good.
- Christmas now seems to me to be the designated place where acquisitiveness runs full face into the problem of morality in childrearing.
- But other desires kept them active: four in particular, which we can label acquisitiveness, rivalry, vanity, and love of power. Bertrand Russell - Nobel Lecture
- Or in order to prove the rationality and necessity of the capitalist form of society, scholars have tried to make a case for acquisitiveness , competitiveness, and selfishness as innate human traits.
- Dexter Allison is no doubt an estimable man in many ways, even though, as you feel positive, he has a tendency to acquisitiveness which is deplorable. Then I'll Come Back to You
- The demand of the belly-need is too strong; the friction too great: individuality is repressed, forced to manifest itself in acquisitiveness and selfishness. What Communities Lose by the Competivie System
- _Simple_ reflex action, or instinct, answers to the animal faculties, such as acquisitiveness, secretiveness, selfishness, reproductiveness, etc., and accomplishes two important purposes; self-preservation and the reproduction of the specie. The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
