Thesaurus / greedy
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In an interview you did with 60 Minutes around this time, you write that Lesley Stahl had said that most Americans see big corporations as greedy and selfish.
JEFF IMMELT KNOWS HE LET YOU DOWN (EP. 452)STEPHEN J. DUBNERFEBRUARY 18, 2021FREAKONOMICSWe enjoyed the spread by ourselves, surrounded by our two perpetually greedy hounds and warmed by the thought that, with the help of friends and family and ungodly amounts of Tylenol, we had escaped the worst of this thing.
AS A FOOD WRITER WITH COVID, I WORRIED I’D LOSE MY SENSE OF TASTE. IT TURNED OUT TO BE MUCH WORSE.TIM CARMANNOVEMBER 29, 2020WASHINGTON POSTIt’s seen as a bunch of selfish greedy bastards that are just in it to make as much money as possible.
WHOLE FOODS’ CEO ON HOW BUSINESS CAN BE BETTER THAN JUST “A BUNCH OF SELFISH GREEDY BASTARDS”MCKENNA MOOREOCTOBER 6, 2020FORTUNEIt all depends on your management style and what you’re happy with and how greedy you really want to be.
‘WE’RE RACING AGAINST THE CLOCK’: THE CEO OF THE SERUM INSTITUTE OF INDIA ON HIS COMPANY’S COVID-19 VACCINE CAMPAIGNERIKA FRYSEPTEMBER 21, 2020FORTUNEWhen stocks take a beating, the pros often jump back in and buy on the cheap, adapting that Warren Buffett-ism of being “greedy when others are fearful.”
BUFFETT’S BIG BET ON JAPAN SENDS GLOBAL STOCKS HIGHERBERNHARD WARNERAUGUST 31, 2020FORTUNEEven in its duels against Mongol generals, guardians of ancient treasures, or greedy ronin looking for the same mythical talismans as you, the art direction is impeccable.
IN GHOST OF TSUSHIMA, HONOR IS YOUR GREATEST FOEPATRICK LUCAS AUSTINJULY 14, 2020TIMEThe mother played her accompaniments and at the same time watched her daughter with greedy admiration and nervous apprehension.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINWhenever he visited the garden he told everybody that he should never come there again because Grandfather Mole was too greedy.
THE TALE OF GRANDFATHER MOLEARTHUR SCOTT BAILEYThough this may be accounted for by the fact that he was a greedy reader—of any and every thing which came his way.
DOROTHY AT SKYRIEEVELYN RAYMONDMadame Malmaison knew it also, but the hard look on her greedy face did not soften.
THE WEIGHT OF THE CROWNFRED M. WHITEWORDS RELATED TO GREEDY
- acquisitive
- agog
- ambitious
- antsy
- appetent
- ardent
- athirst
- avid
- breathless
- champing at the bit
- covetous
- craving
- desiring
- desirous
- dying to
- earnest
- fervent
- fervid
- greedy
- gung ho
- hankering
- heated
- hot
- hot to trot
- hungry
- impatient
- intent
- keen
- longing
- pining
- rarin' to go
- ready and willing
- restive
- restless
- self-starting
- solicitous
- thirsty
- vehement
- voracious
- warmblooded
- wild
- wishful
- yearning
- zealous
- acquisitive
- avaricious
- chary
- cheap
- chintzy
- churlish
- close
- close-fisted
- costive
- covetous
- curmudgeonly
- economical
- extortionate
- frugal
- grasping
- greedy
- grudging
- hard-fisted
- ignoble
- illiberal
- ironfisted
- mean
- miserly
- narrow
- near
- parsimonious
- penny-pinching
- pennywise
- penurious
- petty
- pinchpenny
- rapacious
- saving
- scrimping
- scurvy
- selfish
- skimping
- sordid
- sparing
- thrifty
- tight
- tightfisted
- uncharitable
- ungenerous
- ungiving
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