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
• The reporters are as greedy and corrupt as their sources.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 10 Sep. 2020
• Some of them are greedy for the chocolate, and others are spoiled and want the squirrel.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Dec. 2023
• First and foremost, McAvoy has to get greedy back there, think shot-first.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Jan. 2020
• 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
• And Sam got this close to snatching a couple for her greedy self.
  — Samantha Laine Perfas, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 July 2021
• But in her script, the women aren’t weepy, lovesick, jealous or greedy.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2023
• The figure of the Jewish moneylender is the product, not the source, of the myth of the worldly, greedy Jew.
  — Sara Lipton, The New York Review of Books, 17 June 2019
• Capa was fun, stylish and greedy for life but had a streak of melancholy.
  — The Week Uk, theweek, 26 July 2024
• The greediest thieves go for the whole bike, and their tactics might trick you.
  — Matt Jancer, WIRED, 28 Nov. 2023
• That type of success in the first class built from scratch during the Ryan Day era gives the staff two months to get greedy.
  — Stephen Means, cleveland, 22 Dec. 2020
• Per Irish folklore, there was a greedy man named Jack who tried to trick the Devil.
  — Martha Sorren, Woman's Day, 27 July 2020
• Because even in a world of monsters, ghouls, and greedy jerks, the good guys still prevail.
  — Gwen Ihnat, EW.com, 25 Sep. 2024
• The season hasn’t yet reached the halfway point, but the linemen are getting greedy.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2019
• 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
• Ward’s logic is, if John B. wasn’t so greedy, none of this would have happened.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 4 Aug. 2021
• The corporations that run the studios, their job is to be greedy.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Oct. 2023
• Bringing on Bauer was an odd and greedy gamble for a team that had just won the World Series.
  — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2021
• 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
• There doesn’t seem to be an easy escape, and that’s true whether the league’s leaders are noble and good, or greedy and craven.
  — Mike Finger, ExpressNews.com, 10 Oct. 2019
• Olsen: And now the characters on the show, they are seen as greedy, selfish, cruel.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
• In the film, three greedy people—including Nick Perry, the local weatherman and lotto announcer (John Travolta)—attempt to rig the game.
  — Ilana Kaplan, Vogue, 28 Oct. 2024
• Beginners often become greedy, increasing their trade sizes or holding on to positions too long in the hope of making even more money.
  — Tatiana Keller, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024