(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.
Overeat
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To gnaw all over, or on all sides.
(v. t. & i.) To eat to excess; -- often with a reflexive.
Example Sentences:
(1) Young male Sprague-Dawley rats were induced to overeat (approximately 45%) by provision of a "cafeteria" (CAF) diet of palatable human foods.
(2) This study examined attrition and weight loss in 235 female obese binge eaters, episodic overeaters, and nonbingers treated by a 26-week program of behavior modification and very low calorie diet.
(3) Only rats with electrolytic lesions displayed elevated plasma insulin levels during an initial period of food restriction, but both groups with lesions were hyperinsulinemic when allowed to overeat.
(4) If the addict says it is a choice to overeat, who are you, or I, to disagree?
(5) Whether obese humans will overeat in response to a reduction in body energy stores is not known.
(6) Under these conditions, these animals overeat, but the major part of the excess energy intake above maintenance, is dissipated as heat through the sympathetic activation of brown adipose tissue.
(7) Obese and nonobese American Indians overeat in response to stress.
(8) Obesity was induced by programming pups to overeat immediately after birth and then feeding them a high-fat diet thereafter.
(9) Diets that cause animals to overeat and become obese have been used in many investigations of obesity.
(10) There is little evidence that people who are driven to overeat become dependent on a single ingredient; instead they tend to seek out a range of highly palatable, energy-dense foods, of the kind with which we are now surrounded.
(11) Another paper found that the more weight-conscious people are, the more likely they are to overeat : the stress it induces is a trigger for comfort eating.
(12) Only bulimic anorexia nervosa respondents perceived any interventions to be more harmful than helpful, specifically Overeaters Anonymous and self-help groups, both nonprofessional interventions.
(13) Alloxan-diabetic rats fed a standard, low-fat diet lost body weight and were hyperphagic; those fed a high-fat diet lost comparable amounts of weight, but did not overeat compared to normal animals.
(14) With a baby-led approach, parents report that their children are more likely to stop eating when they feel full and may, therefore, be less likely to overeat and be overweight in the long run.” Stay aware Stay aware of your child’s weight and growth.
(15) As part of a large survey of addictive behavior in high school students, 43% of a sample of 278 (26% of the males, 57% of the females) scored above the cutoff point set by Overeaters Anonymous on their scale for assessing compulsive overeating.
(16) Although it is possible to overeat the gastric pouch, the overall result of gastric bypass, in terms of weight loss, is quite satisfactory, and the mortality rate of less than 2 per cent and the morbidity rate of less than 20 per cent are also acceptable.
(17) Adopted an ecological framework to view mutual-help groups, and illustrated its usefulness by examining aspects of the social ecology of "fit" among 163 members of Compassionate Friends (bereaved parents; CF), Multiple Sclerosis (MS), and Overeaters Anonymous (OA) groups.
(18) The findings suggest that a normal woman need not overeat to ensure normal growth of her fetus.
(19) It was hypothesized that hamsters do not overeat following 2DG administration because of unusually strong aversive effects of the drug in this species.
(20) While all three samples were similar on the Motivation scales, Smokers differed substantially from Alcoholics and Overeaters on the Style scales and in terms of Emotional effects.