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Sentence count:221+11Posted:2017-03-04Updated:2020-07-24
Antonym: generousSimilar words: greedreedbreedcreedfreedGreekgreetgreenMeaning: ['griːdɪ]  adj. 1. immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth 2. (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous 3. wanting to eat or drink more than one can reasonably consume. 
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61 A greedy man and an angry woman have never lived prosperously. Rajinikanth 
62 Not because they made bad or greedy investments, and lost all their money in shaky stock deals.
63 The fee limit is there to protect veterans from greedy lawyers.
64 There are many countries and many greedy persons who will suffer themselves to be gulled by my promise of mountains of gold.
65 Though not difficult to grow, they are greedy and prefer a rich, well-drained sandy loam.
66 Some landlords have become greedy and are demanding higher rents than people can afford.
67 Mrs Taylor kept an eye on us, ready to rap our knuckles if we got too greedy.
68 He was shrewd enough to know that to be too greedy with Jared Tunstall might lose him everything.
69 This, flanked by the contents of two tins of Spam, equally wafer-like, drew cries of greedy amazement.
70 Seeing him towering over the young hedgehog like that, licking his great, greedy chops ... Oh!
71 We all know the stories of greedy capitalists, child-labor exploiters, and robber barons.
72 What's outrageous is that one powerful and greedy bully, followed by its lackeys[http://sentencedict.com], can hold the world to ransom.
73 Now those landowners have become greedy and demand high rents - and we help to exploit the peasants by levying crippling taxes.
74 The creatures who inhabit it are cold and greedy and evil and corrupt.
75 The junta that overthrew the old Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974 brutally eliminated the tiny, rich and greedy elite around him.
76 Siward's were in the forest ahead, along with six thousand men far from home and greedy for booty.
77 We were the greedy ambulance chasers representing rancorous clients who clogged the court dockets.
78 After all, no greedy hucksters could steal or plunder them.
79 We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy. Mignon McLaughlin 
80 Accusing the oil companies of being greedy is like saying the sun is hot.
81 Brenda has been swindled out of her alimony by greedy, unscrupulous Morty, a discount electronics magnate.
82 The physicality of their food consumption, decidedly hands-on, and their mutually greedy looks say it all.
83 This was in keeping with his nature, for he was boastful, intolerant and greedy.
84 Fox is a greedy billionaire who ignores his daughter and ends up turning her into gold.
85 Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance. Theodore Roosevelt 
86 Beware the greedy hand of government, thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry. Thomas Paine 
87 She winced, smarting beneath memories of Giles's disbelief and the greedy delight that had turned to frustrated irritation.
88 She loved her lessons, always asking questions, swift to learn, greedy for more information.
89 Matthew: Matthew makes Judas out to be a greedy man who asked for money.
90 But I was a greedy child who knew nothing of cliches or social justice.
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