The more punitive might argue that it was fit punishment for a writer who admits to being “greedily visual.”
I could see Laila's eyes widen as she greedily fed on the male.
A stick of candy from Tom's pocket was greedily accepted by Jackie.
He pushed the ham bone between the slats, and Job received it greedily.
He seemed again to be drawing in nourishment from all he saw, drinking it greedily.
Anything that related to the politics of Kansas the boy listened to greedily.
They had clutched at him greedily, and he had repaid with an impertinence.
Antonio regarded her with his soul in his eyes, then greedily kissed her hands.
Flames licked at them greedily, touching and shriveling their flesh.
Kitty threw a crust to the goldfish and watched them swirl about it greedily.
Old English grædig (West Saxon), gredig (Anglian) "voracious," also "covetous," from Proto-Germanic *grædagaz (cf. Old Saxon gradag "greedy," Old Norse graðr "greed, hunger," Danish graadig, Dutch gretig, Old High German gratag "greedy"), from *græduz (cf. Gothic gredus "hunger," Old English grædum "eagerly"), possibly from PIE root *gher- "to like, want" (cf. Sanskrit grdh "to be greedy").
In Greek, the word was philargyros, literally "money-loving." A German word for it is habsüchtig, from haben "to have" + sucht "sickness, disease," with sense tending toward "passion for."
