adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
greedy pig
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You greedy pig , you ate all the candy!
hungry/greedy eyes (= showing that you want something very much )
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The men looked around the room with their greedy eyes.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
so
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I have never seen anyone so greedy .
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I got mad, because they were so greedy , and tried to shove them away from the chair.
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I wonder why there is so much crime or is it the world we live in which makes people so greedy ?
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These foreigners are so greedy there's never anything left over for supper.
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First Fraser, managing director of Neill's: The men are so greedy .
too
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Mrs Taylor kept an eye on us, ready to rap our knuckles if we got too greedy .
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Tom was too greedy , and not very perceptive.
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To ask for more for herself and put herself in a position of coming first felt too greedy and dangerous.
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He seemed to think that the others were too rowdy, too greedy .
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He was shrewd enough to know that to be too greedy with Jared Tunstall might lose him everything.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Greedy children often tend to put on too much weight.
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Don't be so greedy ! Leave some cake for everyone else.
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He was an ambitious man, selfish and greedy .
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One of the cats gets greedy and eats the other one's food.
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Some landlords have become greedy and are demanding higher rents than people can afford.
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Take your greedy fingers off that pie - you've had more than enough already.
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The fee limit is there to protect veterans from greedy lawyers.
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the ridiculously high fees charged by greedy lawyers
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There were ten of us children in the family, and we were all greedy for attention.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At a deeper level, they rowed about greed - guilt about greed and protection from supposedly greedy women.
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Four greedy eyes gobbled at her.
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Guy was greedy , amoral, obsessed with power and self-gratification.
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He seemed to think that the others were too rowdy, too greedy .
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Not because they made bad or greedy investments, and lost all their money in shaky stock deals.
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She would have liked to stay longer, but realised that would have been greedy .
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The greedy children were at constant odds with one another over control of the kingdom.