Greedy - English meaning

adjective

Relating to or given to eating.

adjective

Very eager for something, especially a lot of food

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Paul has an edacious appetite., my edacious reading habits had been leading me into one unappealing…

adjective

Hungry or greedy.

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In masson's metamorphosis of image and reality in pygmalion, the sculpture on the right becomes the…

adjective

Excessively greedy.

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A group of gluttonous party-goers

adjective

Eating and drinking more than you need

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She said that industrialized countries should reduce their gluttonous (= greater than is needed) co…

noun

A person who enjoys eating and often eats too much.

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I realise i'm doing what gourmands never do - reveal their favourite restaurants for fear of overpo…

noun

A person who enjoys eating large amounts of food

adjective

Having or showing courage, determination, and spirit.

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Her gutsy 80-year-old grandmother

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Greedy.

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Hoggish excess

adjective

(of an appetite or desire) impossible to satisfy.

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An insatiable hunger for success

adjective

(of a desire or need) too great to be satisfied

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An insatiable appetite, insatiable curiosity

adjective

Never satisfied.

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Your strong desire is insatiate

adjective

Having or showing a lack of self-control; immoderate.

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Intemperate outbursts concerning global conspiracies

adjective

Showing anger or violence that is too extreme and not well controlled

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An intemperate outburst, intemperate language, the governor said he would not be provoked into inte…

adjective

Resembling a pig, especially in being unpleasant.

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This would be a piggish way to treat him

noun

A child's word for a pig or piglet.

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No, darling, that has nothing to do with piggies.

adjective

Resembling a pig, especially in features or appetite.

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Three pairs of little piggy eyes

noun

Pig

adjective

(of a ferocious wild animal) extremely hungry and hunting for prey.

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They turned on each other like ravening wolves

verb

(of a wild animal) hunt voraciously for prey.

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Fierce lions went ravening to and fro

adjective

Extremely hungry.

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I'd been out all day and was ravenous

adjective

Extremely hungry

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We were ravenous after hiking all day.

adjective

Allowing yourself to have or do anything you want

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A lot of the poetry is just self-indulgent nonsense., my parents’ trip to hawaii was an unusual sel…

adjective

Unpleasant or contemptible, especially on account of being coarse, greedy, or lazy.

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A swinish man from her family's old-money circle

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Like a pig

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Swinish behaviour

adjective

Wanting or devouring great quantities of food.

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A voracious appetite

adjective

Needing a lot of something to be satisfied

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Wolves are voracious eaters., as a child, i had a voracious appetite for books.

adjective

Resembling or likened to a wolf, especially in being rapacious, voracious, or lascivious.

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A wolfish grin

adjective

Like a wolf or like something that belongs to a wolf

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Wolfish dogs drew our sleds over the ice., wolfish green eyes, he gave her a wolfish grin., three d…