What's the difference between greediness and gulosity?
Greediness
Definition:
(n.) The quality of being greedy; vehement and selfish desire.
Example Sentences:
(1) Most rentiers are not as easily identified as the greedy banker or manager.
(2) It's the greedy internet service providers, say MPs from an all-party committee, who want ISPs to apply automatic filters to prevent access to adult material.
(3) "The property owner has backtracked and displayed a greediness, realising that there is much to be gained and in so doing has begun to exploit the situation," he said.
(4) Jermain Defoe strikes in 89th minute for Sunderland to draw with Liverpool Read more Before the mass departure the Kop loudly sang, “Enough is enough, you greedy bastards, enough is enough” – which was roundly applauded by all four sides of Anfield, including the Sunderland supporters – before launching into ’You’ll Never Walk Alone’, usually reserved for the last few moments of a game.
(5) Why not use the report to announce that the bonus tax will continue until banks (and board rooms) control their offensively greedy pay?
(6) "We the taxpayer continue to finance the greedy executives while this government continues to cosy up to them in secret negotiations which have no effective outcome.
(7) The other airport boss sympathises: "Is it them being greedy, or airlines wanting every ounce of capacity when they can?
(8) And in our audiobook review, we examine appetite with Lionel Shriver's novel Big Brother, and Jay Rayner's exploration of the food industry, A Greedy Man in a Hungry World.
(9) We should all want our money managers to be greedy, with a strong caveat: the self-interest of bankers needs to be aligned with the health of the bank.
(10) The 1% are disproportionately made up not of people who are most able, but of those who are most greedy and least concerned about the rights, feelings and welfare of other people .
(11) But as civilisation gets greedy and society more militaristic, these wise women are edged to the sidelines in favour of a thundering, male warrior god.
(12) Amurao’s workers have invented their own word to describe anybody who is extravagantly greedy: “Imeldific”.
(13) We are either greedy capitalists or we offer bribes.
(14) But for the greedy and adventurous, each one is an absolute trip.
(15) It was based on a greedy society and unsustainable growth.
(16) Others will have a dual purpose and split between personal and business use, such as: • Mortgage interest (but not the capital repayment) or rent if you're a tenant • Running costs such as heat, light and water and TV licence if it's an essential tool • Repairs to your home or adding a desk and bookcase to an existing room • Council tax • Car or van – for a list of allowances for petrol and running costs go to the HMRC website "Don't be greedy by claiming 100% for business use or you will be liable for capital gains tax on that portion when you sell your home.
(17) Kleiner Perkins’ attorneys homed in on Pao’s perceived personal shortcomings, painting a cartoonish picture of a greedy and incompetent ex-employee out only for revenge and a big pay day.
(18) Bill Winters Ousted from the investment bank JP Morgan after a quarter of a century in 2009, Winters has blamed the banking crisis on "greedy bankers, investors and borrowers".
(19) One investor, Joan Woolard, told the bank's directors that anyone who needed more than £1m to live on was "just a greedy bastard".
(20) Leaving is a given when you're dealing with very greedy people; they are avaricious.
Gulosity
Definition:
(n.) Excessive appetite; greediness; voracity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Using a range of authentic standards and different thin-layer and gas chromatographic conditions, X could be recognized as 6-deoxy-3-C-methyl-gulose (virenose), very probably as the L form of this sugar (L-virenose).
(2) The aldohexose gulose was identified as a constituent of a hydroxyproline-rich glycopeptide derived from the glycoprotein SSG 185.
(3) Insulin release and synthesis were stimulated by glucose or mannose but not by allose, altrose, gulose, idose, galactose or talose.
(4) The secretion of the antigen into the media supernatant, the presence of gulose and the observed molecular weight are consistent with properties of alginate secreted by Gram-negative bacteria.
(5) Oxidation of 7 with 3-chloroperoxybenzoic acid gave the corresponding S-epimeric sulfoxides, which underwent Pummerer rearrangement to 1-epimeric L-gulose S-phenyl monothiohemiacetal hexaacetates.
(6) Finally, a proposal is made to explain this discrepancy, focusing on the probable role of the gulose-mannose moiety acting as a protecting pocket, comparable with the pocket and picket-fence porphyrins described for haemoproteins.
(7) The polysaccharide immunodominant epitope gives rise to gulose when derivatives are formed.
(8) Methylation analysis of the main CB2A EPS showed the presence of terminal glucose and gulose groups, 3-linked fucosyl, and two 3,4-linked glucosyl units, thus confirming the pentasaccharide repeating unit indicated by 1H nuclear magnetic resonance analysis.
(9) Monosaccharide analysis showed that the main CB2A EPS contained D-glucose, D-gulose, and D-fucose in a ratio of 3:1:1, whereas the CB15A EPS fraction contained D-galactose, D-glucose, D-mannose, and D-fucose in approximately equal amounts.
(10) The characterization of the three 2-keto-sugar acids has been carried out on the corresponding methyl ester methyl glycosides using GLC-MS and 500-MHz 1H-NMR spectroscopy, and on the corresponding reduced alditol acetates using GLC-MS. Other monosaccharides occurring in the cell wall are D-galacturonic acid (14%), D-galactose (4%), D-gulose (2%), D-glucose (1%) and L-arabinose (1%).
(11) The immunodominant sugars in LPS I are C-3-branched sugars, 6-deoxy-3-C-methyl-L-gulose (L-virenose) and 3-C-(hydroxymethyl)-L-lyxose (dihydro-hydroxy-L-streptose).
(12) 3-Deoxy-d-galactose, 3,6-dideoxy-d-glucose and d-gulose, which have two alterations from the d-glucose structure, were not, or only very weakly, transported.
(13) Boron trifluoride-catalyzed reaction of the latter with thiophenol gave the analogous diphenyl dithioacetal, whereas base-catalyzed methanolysis led to free L-gulose.
(14) Treatment of 7 with N-chlorosuccinimide afforded 1-epimeric 1-chloro-1-S-phenyl-1-thio-L-gulitol pentaacetates, which were hydrolyzed to provide aldehydo-L-gulose pentaacetate.
(15) D-glycero-L-galacto-Octulose and L-glycero-L-galacto-octulose accumulated when leaves of Kenland red clover (Trifolium pratense) were allowed to imbibe solution of D-gulose or D-xylose and L-mannose or L-arabinose, respectively.
(16) Molybdate epimerization of 6 and 7 yields D-(6-13C)mannose and L-(6-13C)gulose, respectively.
(17) The gulose residue occupies a terminal position in the corresponding saccharide.