Meanings
comparative more greedful · superlative most greedful
- Characterized by greed; greedy.
Nor would I wish to bind myself to a woman stained by greedful lust.
2015, Kate Elliott, Black Wolves, →ISBN2 more examples
In a society where it is important to get a (first panel surplus) advantage over other persons, the young man tends to surrender his individual ideals and to adopt instead, as a mask, the ideals and purposes and language and philosophy that make up a sort of common denominator for the "mafia" or predatory agglutination that is bound together in the greedful quest.
1975, William Herbert Sheldon, Prometheus revisitedFreedom from greed unties the knot of greedful actions, but does not diminish our capacity to act.
2014, Anantanand Rambachan, A Hindu Theology of Liberation: Not-Two Is Not One, →ISBN, page 78
Origin
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