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Answer for the clue "Greedy ", 8 letters:
esurient
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Word definitions for esurient in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Very hungry or greedy; ravenous. 2 avid n. One who is hungry or greedy.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"inclined to eat," 1670s, from Latin esurientem (nominative esuriens ), present participle of esurire "be hungry, hunger, desire to eat," from stem of edere "to eat" (see edible ). Related: Esurience ; esuriency .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Esurient \E*su"ri*ent\, a. [L. esuriens, p. pr. of ensurire, fr. edere to eat.] Inclined to eat; hungry; voracious. [R.] --Bailey. ``Poor, but esurient.'' --Carlyle.
Usage examples of esurient.
Lowest of all are those whose esurient vanity, acting on a frivolous levity of mind, urges them to make Literature a plaything for display.
In Kansas City the usual gaggle of esurient sycophants who cannot differentiate between the Artist and the Art rushed the podium for autographs and cheap thrills such as the pressing of flesh.
Bominger, although engaged in vaster commerce far, nevertheless allowed no scruple to interfere with his esurient rapacity.