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.
• His skin, a greedy shade of brown, seems to eat up all the light.
  — Essence, 5 Nov. 2024
• Help the needy, not the greedy, as a wise man once argued.
  — Henry Olsen, National Review, 21 Nov. 2024
• 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
• Those greedy teachers who only work part of the year and all.
  — Author: Shannyn Moore, Alaska Dispatch News, 4 Nov. 2017
• 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
• But that falls on the Spanoses making a greedy mistake.
  — Nick Canepa, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 Jan. 2018
• 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
• Greedy thieves have priced themselves out of the market.
  — Cincinnati.com, 7 June 2017
• Does that mean the Eagles should change their minds now, and get draft-greedy and take a big deal for Foles?
  — Peter King, SI.com, 6 Feb. 2018
• 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
• Far more, in fact, than the near-term focus of the typical greedy stance.
  — Josh Linkner, Detroit Free Press, 17 June 2017
• 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
• But still, airlines can’t get too greedy, says Harteveldt.
  — Barbara Peterson, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Feb. 2018
• Because even in a world of monsters, ghouls, and greedy jerks, the good guys still prevail.
  — Gwen Ihnat, EW.com, 25 Sep. 2024
• But its core themes—the corrupting allure of control, the dangers of putting the future in the hands of greedy autocrats—align closely with those of the original Dune novels.
  — Emma Stefansky, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2024
• Legendary investor Warren Buffett advises to be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.
  — Dividend Channel, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 8 Mar 2025