GREEDILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does greedily mean? 

• GREEDILY (adverb)
  The adverb GREEDILY has 1 sense:

1. in a greedy manner

  Familiarity information: GREEDILY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GREEDILY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a greedy manner

Synonyms:

avariciously; covetously; greedily

Pertainym:

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

 Context examples 

She at once made herself a salad of it, and ate it greedily.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

When I brought it to him, he seized it greedily and drank it out.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

As a result, he concentrated with a similar singleness of purpose, greedily snapping up the hints and suggestions thrown out by his working mate.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I greedily devoured the remnants of the shepherd’s breakfast, which consisted of bread, cheese, milk, and wine; the latter, however, I did not like.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

When I passed them each a plate of the fried meat, they ate greedily, making loud mouth-noises—champings of worn teeth and sucking intakes of the breath, accompanied by a continuous spluttering and mumbling.

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

The jaws stopped working, the ears ceased wobbling, and though eyes remained glued on plates, each man listened greedily for the answer.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

A gilt harp, blotched with many stains and with two of its strings missing, was tucked under one of his arms, while with the other he scooped greedily at his platter.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He brought out of the Yahoos’ kennel a piece of ass’s flesh; but it smelt so offensively that I turned from it with loathing: he then threw it to the Yahoo, by whom it was greedily devoured.

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

In what desert land have you lived, where no one was kind enough to inform you that these fancies which you have so greedily imbibed are a thousand years old and as musty as they are ancient?

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

This conversation they are apt to run into with the same temper that boys discover in delighting to hear terrible stories of spirits and hobgoblins, which they greedily listen to, and dare not go to bed for fear.

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