How to Use greedy in a Sentence

greedy

adjective

• He blames all his problems on greedy lawyers.
• He was a ruthless and greedy businessman.
• There's no need to get greedy—there's plenty for everyone.
• In truth, the Democrats paid a price for being too greedy.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2022
• Remind me when the hero of the story was ever the greedy CEO?
  — Anonymous, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 July 2023
• Since the June mutiny, the Kremlin has cast Prigozhin as a greedy rogue out to make money in the war.
  — Catherine Belton, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
• Some of them are greedy for the chocolate, and others are spoiled and want the squirrel.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Dec. 2023
• Brown and the Astros are well-positioned to get greedy across the 2020s.
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 30 Jan. 2023
• That’s what the whole thing was about, a greedy record company.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2023
• This is carbonara for the clumsy, the impatient and the greedy.
  — Eric Kim, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2023
• But in her script, the women aren’t weepy, lovesick, jealous or greedy.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2023
• The greediest thieves go for the whole bike, and their tactics might trick you.
  — Matt Jancer, WIRED, 28 Nov. 2023
• The man riles up the crowd, suggesting their current leader is greedy and in bed with the white man.
  — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 21 Nov. 2022
• The corporations that run the studios, their job is to be greedy.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Oct. 2023
• The Patriots got greedy and raised three banners in the first decade of the 21st century, and three more in the second.
  — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 25 Jan. 2024
• Olsen: And now the characters on the show, they are seen as greedy, selfish, cruel.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
• The Nazis were greedy, for starters, but the story is rooted — of course — in their brutal anti-Semitism.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 23 Aug. 2022
• Lewis is a romantic, greedy for love, but wary of it, too, because love is the first thing that life hurts.
  — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2022
• It was built on something that all of the greedy people in the world started exerting force on.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 29 Dec. 2022
• The big fish eat the little fish in this sea of cannibals, and Auburn’s only sin is being a greedy shark.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 30 Sep. 2022
• The true baddies are far more sinister than the greedy conman.
  — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 29 Mar. 2023
• And of course they are also expected to bestow a gift on the greedy couple.
  — Nicholas Ivor Martin and Jacobina Martin, oregonlive, 28 Mar. 2023
• Thanks for being greedy and not caring for your partners.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2022
• Android TV is going to be less storage-greedy in the future.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 22 Nov. 2022
• Those who disagree with him are branded greedy and corrupt.
  — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 1 May 2022
• But Tampa Bay got greedy near the end of the half, sending the Falcons to a locker room on quite a high after Davidson's pick-6.
  — Paul Newberry, ajc, 5 Dec. 2021
• But Tampa Bay got greedy near the end of the half, sending the Falcons to a locker room on quite a high after Davidson’s pick-6.
  — Paul Newberry, orlandosentinel.com, 5 Dec. 2021
• Then there was this email exchange with an ungrateful greedy geezer.
  — Tom Margenau, Dallas News, 23 July 2023
• Some investments are suitable for the fearful, others for the greedy.
  — Vivek Ramaswamy and David Sokol, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2022
• Seems like her manager is getting a little greedy at the expense of her health.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 3 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024