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US
/ˈɡɹidi/
]
[ UK /ɡɹˈiːdi/ ]
[ UK /ɡɹˈiːdi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth
they are avaricious and will do anything for money
grasping commercialism
a grasping old miser
greedy for money and power
casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields
grew richer and greedier
prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees -
(often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous
avid for adventure
fierce devouring affection
the esurient eyes of an avid curiosity
greedy for fame
an avid ambition to succeed -
wanting to eat or drink more than one can reasonably consume
don't be greedy with the cookies
How To Use greedy In A Sentence
- It features a group of con artists with a modicum of honour: they only steal from the greedy and the morally corrupt.
- At a deeper level, they rowed about greed - guilt about greed and protection from supposedly greedy women.
- According to Lawrence Will, ‘floods and freezes, wild hogs and coons, muck fires, gnats and mosquitoes, slow transportation and greedy New York buyers, all these discouraged many.’
- Perhaps it is greedy to have wanted more. Times, Sunday Times
- don't be greedy with the cookies
- Making our way up the gently ascending road that cut its way through the forest, we saw hordes of greedy monkeys waiting for freebies.
- For matter of Religion it would require a particular volume, if I should set downe how irreligiously they couer their greedy and ambicious pretenses, with that veile of pietie. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
- Human nature is greedy, devious and sleazy, and most salacious tabloid stories are merely reflecting that fact.
- The initials AIG may stand officially for American Insurance Group, butthey would better represent: Ain't I Greedy! Stop the Bonuses at AIG
- Note: The name honeysuckle comes from the sweet nectar flower produces to intoxicate the greedy bee.