What's the difference between ardent and greedily?

Ardent


Definition:

  • (a.) Hot or burning; causing a sensation of burning; fiery; as, ardent spirits, that is, distilled liquors; an ardent fever.
  • (a.) Having the appearance or quality of fire; fierce; glowing; shining; as, ardent eyes.
  • (a.) Warm, applied to the passions and affections; passionate; fervent; zealous; vehement; as, ardent love, feelings, zeal, hope, temper.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Yet what has been unfolding in the past 15 months or so should make even the most ardent pro-European think about an orderly mechanism for making member states exit: the euro crisis and, less obviously, Hungary's backsliding from liberal democracy to a soft form of authoritarianism, or what an American paper recently called " Lukashenko lite ".
  • (2) Long regarded as the most ardently pro-European party in British politics, the Lib Dems have pledged to do everything they can to campaign for Britain to remain in the EU and hope to win support from voters who regret the result of June’s referendum.
  • (3) He was as ardent as any Democrat to see the back of George Bush, but was never swept up in Obamania.
  • (4) Those same countries which are most resistant to immigration are often the most ardent proponents of the free market which has created this situation and the same countries that are profiting out of the opening up of their eastern European neighbours.
  • (5) For Tories, it's no problem – they ardently want to cut the state back as hard as they dare.
  • (6) Elizabeth Wallschlager, a Panamanian immigrant and a Catholic, said: “I don’t think the pope said that.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest An ardent Trump supporter from Kiawah Island, she added: “I think that it’s a misunderstanding.
  • (7) Even the most ardent Republican supporter must realise that historically the party has tended to boost the wealth of the few rather than the many.
  • (8) But Trump’s performance seemed to ease the concerns of attendees who represented some of the most ardent cultural warriors in the party, a group that has long been uncomfortable with the party’s nominee, and preferred other candidates like Ted Cruz during the primary.
  • (9) He must have been one of the few children who noticed that an animating crisis in Mary Poppins was a run on a bank; less surprising is his memory of rats in the streets after the rubbish collectors' strike in the 70s, which engendered an enduring scepticism about the Labour party (though, "like any intelligent teenager" he was briefly an ardent Labour supporter and briefly a Scottish nationalist - "I'm promiscuous that way").
  • (10) Even the most ardent Kobe apologist cannot deny that he committed an aggressive act of infidelity and made himself look terrible in his initial statements to police, where he lamented not simply paying off his alleged victim.
  • (11) These ardent conservatives are also challenging the conventional wisdom – and testimony from the US Treasury secretary, Jack Lew, that the US would be at high risk of default once its borrowing authority expires on Thursday.
  • (12) Belmondo could treat women tenderly (as the priest dealing with an ardent parishioner in Léon Morin, prêtre) and harshly (beating up a treacherous moll in Le Doulos).
  • (13) Although ardent strides have been made in the realm of diagnosis and follow-up with the advent of ultrasonography, mortality and morbidity have not changed appreciably over the past 20 years.
  • (14) On one side were the “ardent internationalists”, “comfortable Europhiles” and “engaged metropolitans”, while “strong sceptics” and “EU hostiles” occupied the other pole.
  • (15) Zlatan’s many ardent supporters, those who are fans as opposed to curious neutral observers, might not like it.
  • (16) Who knows, perhaps soon the concealed British penises of yesteryear might become proudly erect and engirdled with daisy chains wreathed by ardent lady lovers – just like in the novel Lady Chatterley's Lover , the ban on which had been overturned in 1960.
  • (17) Jones told Turnbull that because he had had dinner with Palmer, a trenchant critic of Abbott, “people” were suggesting that “precisely because you have no hope ever of being the leader again – you have got that into your head, no hope ever – that because of that you are happy to chuck a few bombs around that might blow up Abbott a bit, that is what they are saying.” Turnbull replied that it was Jones who was undermining the Abbott government and “doing the work of the Labor party”, a charge not usually levelled at the Sydney announcer who is an ardent supporter of the prime minister.
  • (18) Not even the most ardent Brexiteer would want to rush into a notification under article 50.
  • (19) Luckily, many of Prop 187’s and SB 1070’s most ardent supporters are now either eternally vilified ( Governor Pete Wilson ), politically irrelevant ( Governor Jan Brewer ) or in massive legal problems ( Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio ).
  • (20) Among the list of eminent speakers on the platform at the inaugural meeting in November 1955 – at the Central Methodist hall in Westminster – was the novelist JB Priestley, Lord Pakenham (later Lord Longford, a member of the incoming Labour government in 1964, and a lifelong penal reformer), Gerald Gardiner QC (Labour’s lord chancellor from 1964-70) as Lord Gardiner, a passionate law reformer and ardent abolitionist, and CH Rolph (a prominent writer and a former inspector of police in the City of London).

Greedily


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a greedy manner.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At home they greedily chug down a quart of amped-up babyccino .
  • (2) The expenses affair of 2009 fed the impression – mostly unfair – that MPs were in it only for themselves, greedily lining their pockets.
  • (3) Marco Reus sprints on to it, gallops through on goal like a rugby player greedily accepting an interception and flicks the ball past Joe Hart and into the bottom left-hand corner.
  • (4) Now that the party's over, all of those must-watch Heat games, some greedily picked up by networks betting the streak would continue, have reverted back to pumpkins.
  • (5) "My memories of WC2006 are of countless speculative attempts by Lampard and Ballack to greedily try a solo master-blaster into the net," recalls Laurence Welford.
  • (6) Blood is splashed across his website and featured, for example, in a recent cartoon of the Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, who was pictured as a green, wraith-like creature drinking greedily from an oversized cup labelled "children's blood".
  • (7) Rudin in Turgenev’s eponymous novel desperately wants to surrender himself “completely, greedily, utterly” to something; he ends up dead on a Parisian barricade in 1848, having sacrificed himself to a cause he doesn’t fully believe in.
  • (8) Blood is splashed across his website and featured, for example, in a recent cartoon of the Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, who was pictured as a green, wraith-like creature drinking greedily from an oversized cup labelled "Children's Blood".
  • (9) Lisicki leads 4-2 and she's eyeing up the first set greedily now.
  • (10) Let us together set our sights on a Britain where three out of four families own their home, where owning shares is as common as having a car, where families have a degree of independence their forefathers could only dream about.” Anyone under the age of 45 is now much less likely to be a homeowner than people of the same age 25 years ago Two years later the writer Neal Ascherson wrote a prescient column in the Observer that he recalls as “the most popular column I ever wrote … It was greedily read by the yuppie generation – and then fiercely denounced for being wrong.” Foreseeing that soaring house prices meant that London’s middle-class young would inherit many millions when their parents died, Ascherson predicted an “explosion of liquid wealth that would create instant and colossal inequality”: a society with an upper class rich enough to maintain servants, in a “court city” drained of industry that had reverted to the production of luxurious baubles.
  • (11) My uncle is eyeing the girl's backside greedily: – My dear boy, have you seen that waitress – nice, uh?
  • (12) Not when Italy had accumulated 35 shots, compared to England's nine, and greedily kept 64% of possession.
  • (13) The red fluid is splashed across his website and featured, for example, in a recent cartoon of the Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, who was pictured as a green, wraith-like creature drinking greedily from an oversized cup labelled "Children's Blood".
  • (14) Formby wrote: "In claiming that our union members may consider Unite to be too political – straight from the Eric Pickles textbook where union membership should only be a workplace transaction – Dugher, those greedily sought rightwing headlines in the bag, exposed a seriously poor grasp of the drive, collectivism and democracy that serve our movement proudly.