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greedily

Adverb

Meaning

In a greedy manner.

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. Denis Diderot

To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid. Christopher Hitchens

Disputants often fare poorly when they each act greedily and deceptively. Howard Raiffa

Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing. Isaac Barrow

Scatter money in a crowd, how they scramble for it; offer bread to the starving, how greedily they seize it; throw a rope to the drowning, how he eagerly grasps it! With like eagerness and earnestness may the Spirit of God help you to lay hold on Christ. Thomas Guthrie

In my servant the ant, my tiny servant, who hoards greedily like a miser. Who works like one unhappy and who has no break and who has no rest. Charles Péguy

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