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• A: So you're saying, in other words, that he's greedy? B: Essentially, yes, that's what I'm saying.From the entry essentially
• That greedy con artist would swindle you at any cost.From the entry con artist
• It has the greedy property (difficult to prove in time-critical contest environment!).2013, Steven Halim, Felix Halim, Competitive Programming 3: The New Lower Bound of Programming Contests., page 89. From the entry greedy property
• A few examples will demonstrate the cultural basis of individualistic, greedy, and anticooperative behavior.2012, Carl Ratner, Cooperation, Community, and Co-Ops in a Global Era, page 46. From the entry individualistic
• Initially developed for mining purposes, they were quickly adapted by some greedy weapons manufacturer.[2002, Eoin Colfer, “Cruisin’ for Chix”, in Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Miramax Books…. From the entry softnose
• Time and time again people get mad at us for stereotyping Jews as being greedy.1993, Storm Trooper Steve, quotee, “Turf and Terror: You Ain’t One of Us”, in Susan Goodwillie, editor, Voices from the Future: Our…. From the entry nonmiserly
• The best now pay danegeld to the sloths, the greedy, the manipulators.1989, Irwin M. Ryan, The Last Congress, Remco, →ISBN. From the entry danegeld
• It is both irresponsible and greedy to dig up flatfuls of any wild plant.1976 May, Richard M[alcolm] Ketchum, editor, Blair & Ketchum’s Country Journal, volume III, number 5, Brattleboro, Vt.: Country Journal…. From the entry flatful
• Perhaps I looked too greedy—Grandfather threatened to throw the pudding out of the window.1965 March 25, Richard Willstätter, “My Ancestors”, in Lilli S[chwenk] Hornig, transl., edited by Arthur Stoll, From My Life: The Memoirs…. From the entry grandfather
• Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 85. From the entry fellow
• Beshrew the eyes that hung upon his form on that day with a passionate, greedy, all-absorbing love!1916, Varahaneri Venkatesa Subramaniam Aiyar, The Kural or the Maxims of Tiruvalluvar. From the entry hang upon
• But, Lord bless you, give them a chance—you'll find some of the greatest the greediest.1901, Henry James, The Papers. From the entry work the oracle
• Swollen beetroot-red bulbs half-heaved from the soil, tempting greedy fingers to cup and pluck them out of the earth.2019 November 11, Derek Niemann, “Country diary: a delayed harvest after the frost”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London…. From the entry beetroot-red
• The upper ranks thought the middling sort were greedy, obsessed with making money, virtuous enough, but lacking taste, elegance and culture.2015, Keith Linley, ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ in Context: The Politics of Passion, Anthem Press, →ISBN, page 33. From the entry middling sort
• A greedy grin etched itself upon the lad’s grubby face.2015, L.J. Oliver, The Humbug Murders, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 134. From the entry 'spectable
• They were far from being avaricious, rapacious, mean or greedy.2006 July 1, Hugh Conlon, Nine Familiar Fables, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 73. From the entry costive
• The bangals have been stereotyped as shrewd, opportunistic, greedy, parochial, and considered good enough only to become cooks or sweet-makers.2005, The Indian Journal of Social Work, Mumbai: Department of Publications, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 11. From the entry ghoti
• With commendable honesty, he also acknowledges the amount of (unfair, obviously) criticism he has received for being greedy for media attention.2002 September 19, “Short Cuts”, in London Review of Books, volume 24, number 18, Thomas Jones. From the entry cyborg
• The comedies work in very obvious ways to feminize this socially-ominous triad of young fops, old lechers, and greedy businessmen.2000, Deborah Payne Fisk, The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre, page 202. From the entry lecher
• The Senate is full of greedy, squabbling delegates.1999, George Lucas, Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, spoken by Senator Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid). From the entry politics
• Newspapers pointed at greedy contractors who used shoddy materials, slipshod methods and the help of corrupt officials to bypass building codes.1999 August 22, Johanna McGeary, “Buried Alive”, in Time. From the entry slipshod
• Bankrobbers are typified by words like dangerous, mean, greedy, and dishonest pertaining to the total image of the person.1995, Elisabeth Lissenberg, “Fantasy and the Embodied Moral Capital: Children’s Moral Judgments of Crime and Criminals”, in Günter…. From the entry bankrobber
• Finally, the department of agriculture maintains practically a year-round surveillance to keep the bread-flour mongers from their greedy grabs.1949 November 24, Holmes Alexander, “War Is On Against Bread Mongers”, in Fort Myers News-Press, Fort Myers, Fla., page 4. From the entry flour-monger
• Cold and grim sat that malevolent brute the furnace, greedy, bottomless—its grate bars clenched over clinkers which no shaker could dislodge.1944, Emily Carr, “Dew and Alarm Clocks”, in The House of All Sorts. From the entry clinker
• Because rumor has it, that they are three times as ugly, meaner, greedier and war mongering than the Earthlings, could ever be.2013, R. J. Denardo, The Captain's Propensity: The Andromeda Incident II, page 179. From the entry iguanoid
• There are as many Ponzies and greedy people that have infinite time and resources, knowledge, freedom and the greatest of all, The Purpose!2011, Go Pal, Politics of Convenience! Upset the Balance of Power, page 24. From the entry Ponzi
• Frame-by-frame analysis revealed how the pigflesh charred while the greedy napalm burned, the pigs’ innards curling out to embrace the flame, providing fuel from within.2010, Scott Westerfeld, “Non-Disclosure Agreement”, in Tim Pratt, editor, Sympathy for the Devil, San Francisco, Calif.: Night Shade…. From the entry pigflesh
• He was a competent lawyer, and he was rich, and neither overly greedy nor overly hoardful, which was true of all Heaths.2007, Ellen Cooney, A Private Hotel for Gentle Ladies, page 10. From the entry hoardful
• This is followed by a recipe for that very killer dish: "Eat and remember this, the greediest of all Popes" is their merry exhortation.2000, Various authors, The tablet, page 798. From the entry killer
• However, if you come across kids of the really mercenary kind, then you wish you could snatch back the ang pow from their greedy hands.1996, Su Kim Lee, Malaysian flavours: insights into things Malaysian, page 88. From the entry ang pow
• "Why remember those nasty centuries when honest folk were queered, pestered and malagroozed by clanjamfries of greedy gangsters who called themselves governments and stock exchanges?"1994, Alasdair Gray, A History Maker. From the entry malagruze
• Hollier was a chomper, his jaws working up and down like pistons, and without seeming to be greedy he ate a great deal.1983, Robertson Davies, The rebel angels. From the entry chomper
• “Dealers were charging more than the suggested manufacturer price and it made Harley look greedy and jeopardized our brand that we spent a long time building,” Mr.2009 March 22, Susanna Hamner, “Harley, You’re Not Getting Any Younger”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 Nov 2020. From the entry heightened
• Today's lawyers run the risk of feeding the "greedy, arrogant law firm" persona already well-established in the minds of most people when they mishire, mismanage, and improperly funnel resources.2005, Business Law Today - Volume 15, page 14. From the entry mishire
• Elwood seems at first a typical army scrounger and lurkman with his latest model Mercedes and every creature comfort but he is a ruthless and greedy drug pedlar.1993, The Bulletin - Volume 115, page 87. From the entry scrounger
• Newspapers and even some “scientific” theory reinforced vicious stereotypes that depicted Italians as swarthy and stupid, Irish as lazy and drunkardly, Jews as greedy and cunning.1975, Howard P. Chudacoff, The Evolution of American Urban Society, Prentice-Hall, Inc., →ISBN, page 117. From the entry drunkardly
• They are able to support this greedy host of prædators and parasites because they are extremely prolific, hardy, or eurythermic, and of a very industrious and peaceable disposition.1911, William Morton Wheeler, The Journal of Animal Behavior, volume III, Henry Holt & Company, page 386. From the entry prædators

Meaning of greedy

1. adjective Having greed; consumed by selfish desires.
2. adjective Prone to overeat.
3. adjective Tending to match as much text as possible.

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How do you use greedy in a sentence?

Greedy is used as an adjective. For example: “This regular expression performs a greedy match.”

What is a short sentence with greedy?

“This regular expression performs a greedy match.”

What does greedy mean?

Greedy means having greed; consumed by selfish desires.