Devouring or craving food in great quantities.
(Often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous.
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Examples for "greedy "
Examples for "greedy "
1 Superefficient engines that were kept off the market by greedy energy companies.
2 However, when we paid piles of peanuts, we simply got greedy monkeys.
3 A greedy algorithm approach was used to conduct the propensity score match.
4 There was one of her family in particular that was especially greedy .
5 Simple in his tastes, and yet very vain and greedy of applause.
1 It didn't fall, however, though the fire must have been devouring it.
2 And she had known nothing but waiting and devouring for so long.
3 This was killed in a hen-house where it was devouring the poultry.
4 Alice was standing in the dining-room devouring a book of Greek history.
5 She sat and trembled before the devouring gaze of the great Ferriday.
1 Based on Lucy's avid expression, we had plenty of time to talk.
2 The sophisticated, secularist family of Dr. Zarkhi no doubt contained avid readers.
3 Two hundred thousand avid fans would pour into Charlotte for Race Week.
4 EBONY.com: As many avid readers may know, Harlequin is synonymous with romance.
5 Cardinal McKeefry School teacher Laura Thomsen said her students were avid readers.
1 The clamourings of esurient Viennese-
2 Lowest of all are those whose esurient vanity, acting on a frivolous levity of mind, urges them to make Literature a plaything for display.
3 Oscar-theamiable, irresponsible, esurient Oscar-with no more sense of a picture than of the fit of a coat, has the courage of the opinions .
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