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greedy
adjective as in desiring excessively
Weak matches
acquisitive, avaricious, avid, carnivorous, close, close-fisted, covetous, craving, desirous, devouring, edacious, esurient, gluttonous, gobbling, gormandizing, grabby, grasping, grudging, gulping, guzzling, hoggish, insatiable, insatiate, intemperate, itchy, miserly, omnivorous, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, piggish, prehensile, ravening, ravenous, stingy, swinish, tight, tight-fisted, voracious
Example Sentences
Keeping their image for integrity intact in this world of greedy and needy players and voracious gamblers is only going to get harder.
I could not imagine how sneaky, dishonest and greedy a person my sister, the executor of his will, turned out to be regarding the distribution of our father’s property.
“This isn’t a time to be greedy. Exercise control, which means trimming winners and taking profits where appropriate.”
During the Civil War, Yankees and Confederates alike accused Jews of being greedy and disloyal.
She asked for a white male manager to identify himself and cleanse the sins of greedy capitalism by agreeing to take a shower onstage.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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