[
UK
/ɹˈiːdi/
]
[ US /ˈɹidi/ ]
[ US /ˈɹidi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- resembling a reed in being upright and slender
- having a tone of a reed instrument
How To Use reedy 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.
- Together they cast a breedy scent like that arising from dank beds of galax, and it overpowered even the reek of the strange meat. Cold Mountain
- 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