greedy
adjective
excessively or inordinately desirous of wealth, profit, etc..
greedily
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a word derived from
greedy.
Example Sentences
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But the giant technology companies are now greedily raising as much money as they can from suckers — excuse me, investors — to keep spending on the AI arms race.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
Nothing of that great regional upheaval greedily foretold by the prophets of Western decline.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
Lore goes that when Alec Guinness received the “Coronets” script with an offer to play four of the ill-fated tycoons, he wrote back greedily and said, “Why not eight?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026
When I recently made it for my family, I proceeded to shock myself with how much I greedily put away.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2022
Amelia greedily eyed the fish, which, fearing the worst was about to happen, made itself as limp as it could in Mary Poppins’s hand.
From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers
