Meanings
comparative more greedily · superlative most greedily
- In a greedy manner; with keen or ardent desire.
The two dogs greedily devoured the meat.
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I gazed greedily on the gems in the shop window.
There he ordered beer from the adenoidal Chinese manager and drank the afternoon away, greedily swilling bottle after bottle, feeling gradually his adulthood return.
1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 344
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adverbin a greedy manner
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Old Englishgrǣdiglīce
- Middle Englishgredyly
- Englishgreedily
From Middle English gredyly, gredily, from Old English grǣdiglīce, grǣdelīce; equivalent to greedy + -ly.
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Esperanto avide
- avidein a greedy manner
Finnish ahneesti
- ahneestiin a greedy manner
French avidement
- avidementin a greedy manner
German gierig
- gierigin a greedy manner
Hungarian mohón
- mohónin a greedy manner
Italian cupidamente
- cupidamentein a greedy manner
Latin avidē, avāriter
- avidēin a greedy manner
- avāriterin a greedy manner
Russian жа́дно
- жа́дно (žádno)in a greedy manner
Yiddish זשעדנע
- זשעדנע (zhedne)in a greedy manner
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