greedy

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++greed·y /ˈɡriːdi/ adjective (comparative greedier, superlative greediest) 1 GREEDYalways wanting more food, money, power, possessions etc than you need 贪婪的，贪心的；贪吃的，贪喝的 a greedy and selfish society 一个贪婪自私的社会 He looked at the gold with greedy eyes. 他贪婪地看着这些金子。 Have you eaten them all, you greedy pig? 你把那些全吃了？你这贪吃的猪！greedy for They are greedy for profits. 他们利欲熏心。2 greedy guts British English spoken someone who is greedy 贪婪的人 Hey, greedy guts, leave some cake for me! 嗨，你这贪嘴的家伙，给我留点蛋糕！ —greedily adverb He grabbed the bottle and drank greedily. 他抓起瓶子，贪婪地喝了起来。 —greediness noun [uncountable]

Examples from the Corpus

greedy• He seemed to think that the others were too rowdy, too greedy.• She would have liked to stay longer, but realised that would have been greedy.• He was an ambitious man, selfish and greedy.• Guy was greedy, amoral, obsessed with power and self-gratification.• Some landlords have become greedy and are demanding higher rents than people can afford.• One of the cats gets greedy and eats the other one's food.• Greedy children often tend to put on too much weight.• The greedy children were at constant odds with one another over control of the kingdom.• Four greedy eyes gobbled at her.• Take your greedy fingers off that pie - you've had more than enough already.• There were ten of us children in the family, and we were all greedy for attention.• Not because they made bad or greedy investments, and lost all their money in shaky stock deals.• The fee limit is there to protect veterans from greedy lawyers.• the ridiculously high fees charged by greedy lawyers• Don't be so greedy! Leave some cake for everyone else.• At a deeper level, they rowed about greed - guilt about greed and protection from supposedly greedy women.Origin greedy Old English grædig

greed·y adjectiveChineseSyllable

etc food, than possessions always you wanting money, Corpus power, more need

greedy
greed‧y /ˈɡriːdi/