Translation for "acquisitive" to spanish

Acquisitive

adjective

• codicioso

Translation examples

codicioso adjective

That means that the great people of America and various nations of Europe need to obey the demands and wishes of a small number of acquisitive and invasive people.
Eso significa que el gran pueblo de los Estados Unidos y de varias naciones de Europa debe obedecer las demandas y deseos de un pequeño número de personas codiciosas e invasoras.

A vulgar, acquisitive man.
Un hombre vulgar y codicioso.

I closed my mind to him as best I could and gave myself to the food before me. But sentences came breaking in on my happiness recalling me to the harsh, acquisitive world which Rex inhabited.
Desvié mi atención de su charla lo mejor que pude... y me dediqué a la comida que tenía delante de mí... pero ciertas frases pasaban rompiendo mi felicidad recordándome el duro y codicioso mundo en el que vivía Rex.

You, you're an acquisitive one.
Tú eres codiciosa.

“I’m not very acquisitive anymore.”
—Ya no soy muy codicioso.

His sociability was stronger than his acquisitive instinct.
Tenía un carácter más sociable que codicioso.

He is unacceptable. He is nothing more than an acquisitive royal clerk.
Es inaceptable. No es más que un funcionario real codicioso.

His hands didn’t have the acquisitive curl I was used to seeing in them.
Sus manos no mostraban la codiciosa flexión de pasadas ocasiones.

The Hapsburgs are an acquisitive and competitive family and will stop at nothing to get what they want.
Los Habsburgo son una familia codiciosa y competitiva, y no se detendrán ante nada para conseguir lo que anhelan.

Dodie was a whore with the heart of a bank-teller and the soul of an acquisitive cockroach.
Dodie era una prostituta con el corazón de un cajero de banco y el alma de una cucaracha codiciosa.

Pirates, these women, with their ladylike briefcases for the loot and their horsy acquisitive teeth.
Esas mujeres eran como piratas, con sus elegantes carteras para guardar el botín y sus dentaduras caballunas y codiciosas.

Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood.
Las fotografías son en efecto experiencia capturada y la cámara es el arma ideal de la conciencia en su talante codicioso.

He only knew that Gallowglass's eyes were filled with tears, and yet his face looked acquisitive.
Sólo sabía que los ojos de Horca de Cristal estaban colmados de lágrimas, y que, al mismo tiempo, su rostro era codicioso.

Faust’s acquisitive western intellect is invaded by hybrid sexual forms, bursting out of the alchemic unconscious.
El codicioso intelecto occidental de Fausto resulta invadido por unas formas sexuales híbridas, que salen del inconsciente alquímico.