Sentence examples for downright greedy from inspiring English sources

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Others were downright greedy.

Soon they're selling the head trip (it lasts only 15 minutes), and some people get downright greedy about the experience.

Two in four years might seem downright greedy, except that there was little disagreement, as Sarah Lyall notes in The Times, that Hilary Mantel had written an exceptional novel in "Bring Up the Bodies".

But because so many great pop things happened in the last few weeks of 2008 that it seems downright greedy to expect anything else to be worth getting excited about until Easter at the earliest.

The film suggests he may have been downright greedy.

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In House of Lies, he dives into a creative arena that A) is downright timely if not blatantly intentional in the way it gets its reverse-message across -- glamorize the greedy so you realize that it's not cool to be greedy -- and B) is just so foreign to the way he's always operated in the world.

Downright unAmerican?

Downright Stengelian.

Greedy unions.

Even greedy.

Very greedy.

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