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Wanting or taking all that one can get with no thought of what others need.

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Usage examples (39)
  • No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy - unless you let him.
  • Don't be greedy with the cookies
  • He's been very, very tough on what he calls the greedy, the CEOs that are making hundreds of millions dollars a year.
  • The continent's two biggest economies want the rest of the developed world to join them in cracking down on what they call greedy bankers.
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