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Definition of Too-greedy
1. Adjective. Excessively gluttonous.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Too-greedy
Literary usage of Too-greedy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rural Rides in the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hants, Berks, Oxford by William Cobbett (1908)
"This is being too greedy. It is impossible that they can gain by this. What they
gain one way they lose the other way ; and I verily believe, that the most ..."
2. Rural Rides: In the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hants, Berks, Oxford by William Cobbett (1885)
"This is being too greedy. It is impossible that they can gain by this. What they
gain one way they lose the other way ; and I verily believe, that the most ..."
3. Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events (1875)
"She may have too many and too greedy go-betweens, and she needs justice in the
transportation of her products; but these evils remedied, the burden of her ..."
4. Rural Rides in the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hants, Berks, Oxford by William Cobbett (1908)
"This is being too greedy. It is impossible that they can gain by this. What they
gain one way they lose the other way ; and I verily believe, that the most ..."
5. Sport in East Central Africa: Being an Account of Hunting Trips in by Frederick Vaughan Kirby (1899)
"... camp— Lichtenstein and wart-hog—Brief entries—How to avoid fever—The helmet
a fraud — An experience with lions—Too greedy—Hyaenas—Game plentiful—Fast in ..."
6. Swinton's Advanced First, Second Reader by William Swinton (1886)
"Be Not Too Greedy. charmed fool'ish hap'pens eon-tent' greed'y lose (looz) FIRST
READING. As a little boy was playing in the garden a bird began to sing. ..."
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