greedful en · ADJ
Etymology
From greed + -ful.
Meanings
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Characterized by greed; greedy.
Freedom 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:Nor would I wish to bind myself to a woman stained by greedful lust.
2015, Kate Elliott, Black Wolves, →ISBN: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 revisited:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more greedful | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most greedful | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |