Sentences with greedy
greed·y
G g - He attacked greedy bosses for awarding themselves big rises.
- A man greedy for success
- Right up until her death in December 2008, a ' greedy ' Dorothy Porter remained in the grip of passion.
- Prison for ' greedy ' stockbroker.
- The greedy owners of the company.
- greedy for praise.
- Michael Jackson was killed by a band of greedy hangers-on, his sister La Toya alleges in interviews with British Sunday newspapers.
- Greedy implies an insatiable desire to possess or acquire something to an amount inordinately beyond what one needs or deserves and is the broadest of the terms compared here; , avaricious stresses greed for money or riches and often connotes miserliness; , grasping suggests an unscrupulous eagerness for gain that manifests itself in a seizing upon every opportunity to get what one desires; , acquisitive stresses the exertion of effort in acquiring or accumulating wealth or material possessions to an excessive amount; , covetous implies greed for something that another person rightfully possesses