Coveting things too much

Usage examples of greedy.

Greedy Senators, who saw a way to make extra money on the side if a friendly Adjutor could quietly shave a few thousand out of a budget and funnel the funds elsewhere?

Jonathan Ainsley was aware that he had larceny in his heart, accepted that he was avaricious, greedy for the good things in life, hungry for power.

The August One satisfied the greedy heart of the priest, and then he told her to go and make her beisance to the God of Light, the great Buddha, and see what message he had for her.

The rascal Bulbul tempted her with gold, no doubt about itas greedy as he is for commissions and bribes!

But very soon my greedy hands touched every part which my lips could not kiss, and Cecilia, as well as Marina, delighted in the game.

But the father, who was as greedy as most Jews are, said that if I liked driving he could sell me a pretty phaeton with two excellent horses.

Then was created the jargon of alchemy, a continual deception for the vulgar herd, greedy of gold, and a living language for the true disciples of Hermes alone.

She would have a son and he would grow up a Jarnisson, cruet and greedy and heartless, Mack thought.

Senyas together could not save Deva from becoming a flaming inferno devoured by its own greedy sun.

I went with the throng, jostled alike by velvet and dowlas, by youths with their estates upon their backs and naked fantastically painted savages, and trampling the tobacco with which the greedy citizens had planted the very street.

The artist is so impatient of dulness, so greedy of fineness, in all his relations, that he is apt to subject himself to a wasteful strain in talking to unperceptive and unappreciative persons.

She saw her family and relatives being eviscerated by greedy alien horrors, things that tore at them with worm mouths that bristled with teeth.

Therefore, upon receiving the fealty of Sir Roberto di Bolgia, the magnate had not only given him back Ulaid in feoff as pre-agreed, but had absolved him and Ulaid in advance of all taxes for five years and half of the taxes for five more years, remarking while so doing that, badly as he always needed income, he still had rather see the lands held for him by his vassals and clients rich, safe from external foes, productive, and enjoying the internal peace that only comes of well-fed commoners than be having to run his armies and fleet ragged helping to put down the constant rebellions of starving, desperate people hither and yon, such as too many shortsighted and greedy monarchs had done, were doing, and would do.

The Empire needs many creatures like Boba Fett, hungry and greedy, and independent enough to carry out our dirty work.

I repeat to you that crime is all too common a resort for such giftless, impatient, and greedy nonentities.