If you describe someone as grasping, you are criticizing them for wanting to get and keep as much money as possible, and for being unwilling to spend it.
"the lecture was beyond his most strenuous graspings"
2. the act of gripping something firmly with the hands
Adjective
1. immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth;
"they are avaricious and will do anything for money""casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields""a grasping old miser""grasping commercialism""greedy for money and power""grew richer and greedier""prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees"