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greedily

adverb as in selfishly

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To the millions who greedily gobbled up scuttlebutt about her legendary meanness over the years, this is far from a news flash.

From Salon

The same episode that shows the corpse of a dead woman with what look like intestines coming out of her mouth features a tight shot of Lesley Manville’s manicured hand selecting a clean grape from a dish before the camera zooms in on her scarlet lips as she greedily masticates it.

From Salon

The Crime Bill provides an account easy to grasp and get excited about: Congress threw billions of dollars at the states, and the states greedily threw thousands of people in prison to get it!

From Slate

Trump is a lover of money in that he has lived his adult life greedily pursuing wealth and behaving as if he can never have enough.

From Salon

“Greedily, I feel like I left a few out there,” van Rooyen said “Then again, a shot like 6, the 3-iron I had into that par 5 turned out great. I’m not planning to hit it to 6 feet to that flag. A give-and-take in golf, and really happy with the round.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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