grasping
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishgraspinggrasp‧ing /ˈɡrɑːspɪŋ $ ˈɡræs-/ adjective GREEDYtoo eager to get money and unwilling to give any of it away or spend it Hanson was a hard, grasping man.Examples from the Corpusgrasping• He seems like a good guy to me, not at all the usual grasping political type.• She had tried to be hard and grasping, tried to deal with this in a sophisticated, detached manner.