overgriping

Updated: June 1, 2025

I have known people untrammelled in the ways of business, but with so intense an apprehension of their own interest, that they would grasp at the slightest possibility of gain as a certainty, and were led into as many mistakes by an overgriping, usurious disposition as they could have been by the most thoughtless extravagance. We hear a great outcry about the want of judgment in men of genius.

William Hazlitt - Table Talk : Essays on Men and Manners