What's the difference between avidiously and greedily?

Avidiously


Definition:

  • (adv.) Eagerly; greedily.

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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.

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