greedsome
English
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editgreedsome (comparative more greedsome, superlative most greedsome)
- Characterised or marked by greed; avaricious
- 1916, Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, Old Judge Priest:
- The ant believes what you tell him; the greedsome anteater thrives upon this credulity.
- 2013, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Tim Folger, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2013:
- This is not to say that the larch are gluttons, greedsome water scavengers totally out of control.