acquisitiveness
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Acquisitiveness has also driven up the amount of goodwill on the company’s balance sheet.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 14, 2015
Acquisitiveness has bred turmoil: growing labor unrest, flagging employee spirit and complaints alleging poor service and aircraft maintenance.
From Time Magazine Archive
The daytime talk shows would be rated PE for Pathetic Exploitation; the shopping channel would carry a UA for Untrammeled Acquisitiveness; and most sitcoms would be rated MT for Mindless Trash.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Let us now," said the magician, "excite the counter organ of Secretiveness; and, in order to give this experiment its full effect, I shall also irritate the kindred organs of Acquisitiveness and Caution."
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various
Prominence of organization, or the motive or powerful temperament, gives force of character, and secretes brain in the crown of the head, and over the eyes, along with Combativeness, Destructiveness, Appetite, and Acquisitiveness.
From The Illustrated Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology by Fowler, L. N.
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