GRABBY Synonyms: 167 Similar and Opposite Words

grabby

adjective

ˈgra-bē

as in greedy

having or marked by an eager and often selfish desire especially for material possessions very young children tend to be grabby and often refuse to share

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as in noticeable

likely to attract attention a tabloid that invariably favors grabby headlines, even for underwhelming stories

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Recent Examples of grabby And six-piston Brembo front brake calipers endow the V with a firmer and more responsive brake pedal, though its initial bite comes off as a bit too grabby for our tastes. —

Greg Fink, Car and Driver, 13 June 2022 Choosing products with grabby, unusual packaging is another winning strategy. —

Andrew Weaver, Outside Online, 26 Sep. 2020 In certain regen settings, this can make the brakes feel grabby toward the end of a stop, particularly with the M Sport brakes, which have more initial bite and 14.7-inch front rotors instead of 13.7-inchers. —

Dan Edmunds and Joe Lorio, Car and Driver, 29 July 2022 The film has a grabby premise, lightly fictionalizing the story of the pre-fame Whitney Houston, here named Beauty (Gracie Marie Bradley). —

Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2022 See all Example Sentences for grabby

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The greedy wizard had an idea to build beautiful hotels and homes.

— Letters to the Editor, Hartford Courant, 7 Feb. 2025
But that’s not the way of most corporate America, despite the endless pushing by greedy bankers and lawyers who don’t have enough work to do to maintain their admittedly lavish lifestyles versus pretty much the rest of the country’s work force.

— Jim Cramer, CNBC, 4 Feb. 2025