greedy
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"It's a bit greedy but of course you do like to see your team win something every season. Three more trophies like in 2001 would be pretty good!"
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
In a perfect world, we could focus our ire on the cynical, greedy and ruthless celebrities who treat their fans as saps.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
The reflex is to blame greedy insurers and actuaries in Hartford, Conn., pricing wildfire risk in counties they couldn’t find on a map.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Yet her latest documentary, debuting on Netflix Wednesday, is “Freefall: A Reckoning for Boeing,” which portrays the airplane maker’s continuing malfeasance as not just greedy but malevolent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
We gathered them with flying fingers and greedy hearts and bore them away in triumph, with a glow at least as bright as the sun on those shining scales.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
But it has also made me greedier because now I know what gold feels like.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2023
It’s a juicy lineup of familiar characters who are greedier and pettier than those that usually populate historical epics.
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2021
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
The show finds ways to expose the worst in its characters, their pettiest, most vengeful, greediest parts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
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
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
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