Greedy vs Greedmeister - What's the difference?
greedy | greedmeister |
Having greed; consumed by selfish desires.
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, title= Prone to overeat.
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(informal) An extremely greedy and powerful person, often a banker
* {{quote-news, 1992, March 1, David Mildenberg, Morgan guarantees trust, Business North Carolina
, passage=Jim Morgan, who is about as close to Wall Street greedmeister Gordon Gekko as Murphy is to Manteo. }}
* {{quote-news, 2009, January 18, Gretchen Morgenson, The End of Banking as We Know It, New York Times
, passage=Instead, a handful of arrogant greedmeisters blew up their institutions and took our economy off the cliff along the way. }}
As an adjective greedy
is having greed; consumed by selfish desires.As a noun greedmeister is
(informal) an extremely greedy and powerful person, often a banker.greedy
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Adjective
(er)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. Oh, dear, there's so much to tell you, so many warnings to give you, but all that must be postponed for the moment.”}}
Synonyms
* gluttonous * See alsoDerived terms
* greed (by back-formation) * greediness * greedy-gutsExternal links
* *Anagrams
* (l)greedmeister
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