(superl.) Having a keen appetite for food or drink; ravenous; voracious; very hungry; -- followed by of; as, a lion that is greedy of his prey.
(superl.) Having a keen desire for anything; vehemently desirous; eager to obtain; avaricious; as, greedy of gain.
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.
Hungry
Definition:
(superl.) Feeling hunger; having a keen appetite; feeling uneasiness or distress from want of food; hence, having an eager desire.
(superl.) Showing hunger or a craving desire; voracious.
(superl.) Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved; as, a hungry soil.
Example Sentences:
(1) A considerably greater increase in the peak plasma OT concentration resulted when hungry foster litters of 6 pups were suckled after the mothers' own 6 pups had been suckled.
(2) As a strategy to reach hungry schoolchildren, and increase domestic food production, household incomes and food security in deprived communities, the GSFP has become a very popular programme with the Ghanaian public, and enjoys solid commitment from the government.
(3) It is right that the food banks feed those who would otherwise go hungry, offering a picture of a different kind of economy, though they can do little to address the causes of hunger.
(4) They are hungry for training, education, youth clubs, arts and sports opportunities, and mentoring advice.
(5) When asked if climate scientists get sick of being asked about records by headline hungry media, he graciously laughed, and said: "For a particular month there is very little significance.
(6) Some people say that anyone who wants to help homeless, hungry people should just make a financial donation to an established charity.
(7) We Libyans are just as hungry for a just and accountable government as our Tunisian brothers and sisters.
(8) Stevan Jovetic is hungry for more after his match-winning double strike for Manchester City against Liverpool.
(9) The relationship of the "digestive" and "hungry" electrical activities of the duodenum depended both on the compared type of potential and on the compared time periods.
(10) In addition, baseline levels of neural activity in attack suppressing brain areas prior to any brain stimulation were found to decrease when the cats were hungry and killing was facilitated and neural activity increased when the cats were on ad lib.
(11) Everyone's hungry and cold, they wouldn't even let people go to the toilet.
(12) These are all countries with people who go hungry but, were humanitarian need the only criterion for giving food aid, you might expect to see more countries from west Africa higher on the list, points out Rob Bailey, a fellow at Chatham House.
(13) He was hungry, he was cold, he couldn’t carry on – what else could we do?” She stops for a second, and leans down to caress Vito at her feet.
(14) Hungry but previously "prepared" for winter fleas lived at a temperature from 0 to 2 degrees not more than 376 days.
(15) But he added: “Whilst it is being rolled out, we must have the data to allow us to hold the DWP [Department for Work and Pensions] to account and suggest where improvements can be made.” Scrooge is at large on our hungry streets | Letters Read more The committee said it had been difficult to hold the department to account on benefit delays because of a lack of available data on the timeliness and accuracy of benefits for some disabled people and short-term benefit advance applications.
(16) Justin Welby said that it was “a tragedy” that hunger still existed in the UK in the 21st century and praised the work of charity food banks which he said were “striving to make life bearable for people who are going hungry”.
(17) The offering of food to the hungry animal, and subsequent brief feeding periods, were associated with marked accentuation of this theta activity.
(18) The samples from recently fed animals contained 28% less serotonin than those from hungry ones.
(19) The Trussell Trust has provided through its network of food banks emergency assistance for over 500,000 people since 2013 who are in financial crisis, who are going hungry who have been referred by more than 23,000 different professionals holding vouchers.
(20) There is of course a case for ensuring that children do not go hungry and thus lack concentration.