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# greediness

«greediness» in Mova's school dictionary: **wanting far more food or things than you need, and not…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (no plural)

### meaning for a pupil

wanting far more food or things than you need, and not sharing [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greediness/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales greediness is a fault that is punished: God did it to punish him for his greediness

### examples

- God did it to punish him for his great greediness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greediness/#x1)
- His greediness made him eat all the cakes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greediness/#x2)
- Greediness is not a good quality. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greediness/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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