greedy guts

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noun

(functioning as singular) slang a glutton

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How to use greedy guts in a sentence

Neither Smith nor Marx can carry us far into the guts of globalized financial capitalism.
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The answer may be that animals are greedy: they need a lot of oxygen to grow big and complicated.
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They were being carried out and the stench of their rotting flesh and bloated guts made it hard to examine them closely.
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Soon enough, I felt my own guts rebelling and stepped out into the crystalline Andean night.
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In the end, it was not Leonard who had the guts to press and release—it was Evelyn Aron.
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The mother played her accompaniments and at the same time watched her daughter with greedy admiration and nervous apprehension.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin
Whenever he visited the garden he told everybody that he should never come there again because Grandfather Mole was too greedy.
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Though this may be accounted for by the fact that he was a greedy reader—of any and every thing which came his way.
Dorothy at Skyrie|Evelyn Raymond
Madame Malmaison knew it also, but the hard look on her greedy face did not soften.
The Weight of the Crown|Fred M. White
We been trying to get a younger saw-bones for a long time, but nobody had the guts to tell him he was fired, I guess.
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