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# greedily

«greedily» in Mova's school dictionary: **In a greedy way, wanting or taking more than you need…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb (greedily)

### meaning for a pupil

1) In a greedy way, wanting or taking more than you need, especially food or money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greedily/#m1)

2) Very eagerly, wanting something very much: reading greedily. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greedily/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories it shows a character is selfish or very hungry; in everyday life it describes gobbling food. Phrases: eat greedily, look greedily at, grab greedily.

### examples

- The dog ate its dinner greedily. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greedily/#x1)
- He greedily grabbed all the sweets for himself. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greedily/#x2)
- The dragon looked greedily at the gold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greedily/#x3)
- She read the book greedily, page after page. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greedily/#x4)
- The baby birds opened their beaks greedily. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greedily/#x5)
- Don't eat so greedily, you'll get a stomach ache. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greedily/#x6)
- She at once made herself a salad of it, and ate it greedily. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greedily/#x7)

### note

Adverb from greedy: change y to i and add -ly. Spelling trap: greedily, not greedyly. Greed is the noun.

### In the corpora

- [There is that coveteth greedily all the day long; but the righteous giveth and spareth not.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.614/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «greedily» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greedily/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.