greedy

Example Sentences

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"Get back to your boxing, you're getting too greedy, trying to land and getting caught," Verhoeven's trainer Peter Fury warned his man.

From BBC • May 23, 2026

That disloyal, greedy kid at the center of college football’s first apparent holdout?

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

Print and cinema’s strings are being pulled by the grubby, greedy hands of executives who care far more about money and expediency than art and process.

From Salon • May 1, 2026

It’s one thing for Mamdani supporters to imbibe “eat the rich” rhetoric, it’s another to lambaste small-time shopkeepers as greedy exploiters when they are the backbone of neighborhood food provision and cultural cohesion.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 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