greedy

There’s a saying on Wall Street that the time to be fearful is when others are greedy.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026

After Sandy saw a separate email rejecting a shareholder request to examine company records in 2025, she wrote to a colleague that it made Amy “look desperately greedy and out of control.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

Tossing her blond locks like a hair-metal vixen, she’s a needy, greedy, selfie-taking try-hard who — horrors — frets over her own mass appeal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

But it’s also a story about, say, how a creature’s loneliness might make him greedy and petulant, and how sometimes the best solution is to feed someone’s heart as opposed to their impulses.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026

The morning we were to leave, she was up before dawn, a greedy smile on her face as if she were about to take a big bite of something tasty.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan

"The relationship broke down because he was interfering in everything. He was becoming greedier and greedier. And he became more of a burden than a help," Arum told the Mirror.

From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2022

“True to form, more than half is still in its wrapper, hidden from greedy hands and greedier palates, one end neatly cut away as if by the hand of a fantastically skilled mohel.”

From New York Times ● May 25, 2020

And now, they have just become greedier and don’t know where to stop.”

From Fox News ● Dec. 8, 2018

Those like Silver who reached the pinnacle of power get even greedier.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 26, 2018

I am getting greedier and greedier with the thought that two of us can bring home more corn than Kim can by himself.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

Only the greediest dullards seem to have kept their focus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

The wiliest or greediest adult children have their eye on the main prize: real estate.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2025

“We have so much land, so much resource, but we must be one of the greediest countries out there.”

From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2024

“They’ve just chosen the greediest path. … If they took a little bit less money but emphasized Facebook in the way they apply algorithms, they could help save lives.”

From Washington Post ● Oct. 5, 2021

Whose whims had been taken seriously by adults and who grew up to be the stingiest, greediest people on earth and out of their stinginess grew their stingy little love that ate everything in sight.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison