Word Finder - greedy

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Having greed; consumed by selfish desires.

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Prone to overeat.

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Tending to match as much text as possible.

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(of an algorithm) That tries to find the global optimum by finding the local optimum at each stage.

Was it greedy to want one of their own as well?

There's lots of greedy flatlanders who hear what they want to hear.

At the same time you'd be leading that greedy army who are chasing the million dollar reward.

Her irritability had suddenly quite vanished, and her anxious, imploring eyes were fixed on him with greedy expectation.

He never would have thought Lori could be so selfish and greedy.

These people are very vain and greedy for costly things!

However, if you're not careful you can easily become greedy.

Was she being greedy - insisting on having everything?

These people are very vain and greedy for costly things !

He was greedy, restless, and in a way Bohemian.

Was God punishing Destiny because they had been greedy?

For more than two centuries they had remained prudently entrenched behind the earthworks that extended from Cologne to Ratisbon (Regensburg); but the intestine feuds which prevailed among the barbarians and were fostered by Rome, the organizatipn under bold and turbulent chiefs of the bands greedy for booty, the pressing forward on populations already settled of tribes in their rear; all this caused the Germanic invasion to filter by degrees across the frontier.

Heads of law schools will need to become more greedy!

Those who ate at home marked themselves out as both greedy and lacking in charity.

A peculiarly notable form of this special or private bill legislation is that of dealing by special statutes with the governmental forms and details of management of municipalities; and the control exercised by the state legislatures over city governments is not only a most important branch of legislative business, but at the same time a means of power to scheming politicians and of enrichment to greedy ones.

On the other hand they are greedy of gain, quarrelsome in small matters, self-seeking and wanting in stability; and they are gifted with a tendency to exaggeration and a love of intrigue which has had an unfortunate influence on their history.

But they were only the earliest of the kings alien favorites; quite as greedy were the second family of his mother, Isabella of Angoulme, who after King John.s death had married her old betrothed, Hugh of Lusignan.

A few half-hearted campaigns against recalcitrant vassals and a long and obstinate quarrel with the papacy over his adulterous union with Bertrade de Montfort, countess of Anjou, represented the total activity of Philips reign; he was greedy and venal, by no means disdaining the petty profits of brigandage, and he never left his own domains.

The bad news is we'd better double up on our level of caution if every greedy fortune hunter is bird dogging Howie.

But I'd hate for the club to implode just because we got a bit too greedy.

It is about a very greedy council getting even more greedy.

Now we're getting greedy, how about a 12th?

Since there is no official gift-giving occasion associated with an engagement, registering for gifts can be seen as greedy.

Nor were all the dangers dealt with of extraterrestrial origin; sinister government cabals and greedy unscrupulous industrialists were also given their comeuppance.

Carter works for Network 23, in a future dominated by greedy corporations, where networks compete for ratings on a minute-by-minute basis.

Early on he is known as a selfish and greedy Ferengi who would do anything for profit.

Not only that, but the story shows the greedy side of man as the human role in exploiting the Cylon population unfolds.

But his internal government, unlike that of Gelo, was suspicious, greedy and cruel.

Tacitus describes him as brave in action, ready of speech, clever at bringing others into odium, powerful in times of civil war and rebellion, greedy, extravagant, in peace a bad citizen, in war an ally not to be despised.

Of the partisans who had placed Henry on the throne many were greedy, and some were wholly unreasonable- But he trusted to his tact and his energy, and cheerfully undertook the task of ruling as a constitutional king the friend of the parliament that had placed him on the throne.

Northumberland was a greedy and unscrupulous Border chief, who regarded himself as entitled to exact whatever he chose from his master, because he had been the first to join him at his landing in 1399, and had lent him a consistent support ever since.

Since he could not dismember the kingdom of France, his only course was to reconstitute the ancient kingdom of Lotharingia; while the conquest of the principality of Liege and of the duchy of Gelderland, and the temporary occupation of Alsace, pledged to him by Sigismund of Austria, made him greedy for Germany.

But his victims are usually boorish, greedy or in some way deserving of his attentions.

Or is it that they will learn to be greedy capitalists and want to keep every penny of their inflated incomes.

A grain of anger or a grain of suspicion produces strange acoustical effects, and makes the ear greedy to remark offense.

Or if you're feeling really greedy why not buy four games and get three games free.

For instance, if you think large corporation are greedy and evil, then when you read about how large corporations produce low-nutrition food or are putting family farms out of business, you will believe it.

Will your efforts lead to popular and profitable businesses, or be taken over by greedy corporate fiends?

R.J. then gets greedy and steals all the food instead of taking only as much as he needs.

She is left a place to live by a man who seeks to get even with his greedy relatives.

Little remained to him of his light acquisitions; but he had convulsed Italy by this invasion, destroyed her equilibrium, exposed her military weakness and political disunion, and revealed her wealth to greedy and more powerful nations.

The genus with which Anopheles is most likely to be confounded is Culex, which is the commonest of all mosquitoes, has a world-wide distribution, and is generally a greedy blood-sucker.

The precarious empire which had been founded in 1204 drained away all the vigorous adventurers of the West for its support for many years to come, and the Holy Land was starved to feed a land less holy, but equally greedy of men.'

After the death of Queen Philippa he fell entirely under the influence of a greedy mistress named Alice Perrers, while the Black Prince and John of Gaunt became the leaders of sharply divided parties in the court and council of the king.

In ancient Persia the rainbow was the celestial serpent, and among some African tribes it is the subterranean wealth-conferring serpent, stretching its head to the clouds, and spilling the rain in its greedy thirst.'

Cosbuc, who has risen more recently to fame, is the poet of the unfortunate Rumanian peasant, emancipated only in name and on paper, and a prey to greedy landowners and to a medieval administration.

When he summoned out the fyrd they came in great force to his aid, not so much because they trusted in the promises of good governance and reduced taxation which he made, but because they saw that a horde of greedy barons would be worse to serve than a single king, however hard and selfish he might be.

He was a man of vast physical energy, of inexhaustible mental activity, of quick passions and violent appetites; vain, restless, greedy of gold and pleasure and fame; unable to stay quiet in one place, and perpetually engaged in quarrels with his compeers.

A double handful of clean chaff, or of bran mixed with the oats in the manger, prevents a greedy horse from swallowing a considerable proportion whole.

Robin Tennant, Glasgow During the 1970s a Sun cartoonist depicted striking workers as greedy, grasping, lazy, selfish and brainless.