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GREEDILY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a greedy manner

Synonyms:

avariciously; covetously; greedily

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

greedy (immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth)

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 Context examples: 

Wild adventurers they were, forayers and destroyers from the far lands beyond the Sea of Bering, who blasted the new and unknown world with fire and sword and clutched greedily for its wealth of fur and hide.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Indeed, it seemed as though all hope and light had gone so far from them that it was not to be brought back; for when Sir Nigel threw down a handful of silver among them there came no softening of their lined faces, but they clutched greedily at the coins, peering questioningly at him, and champing with their animal jaws.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Houyhnhnms keep the Yahoos for present use in huts not far from the house; but the rest are sent abroad to certain fields, where they dig up roots, eat several kinds of herbs, and search about for carrion, or sometimes catch weasels and luhimuhs (a sort of wild rat), which they greedily devour.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)