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Discover LudwigThe word "greedily" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe an action done with excessive eagerness or desire, often for food or wealth. Example: "He greedily devoured the entire pizza in one sitting." Alternatives include "avidly" or "gluttonously."
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greedily
adverb
In a greedy manner; with keen or ardent desire; avidly; eagerly.
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We were safe, we thought, as we greedily wolfed down Creme Egg after Creme Egg, laughing maniacally.
China has greedily scooped up oil and gas contracts that others have declined.
Like most ABBA songs (and Bergman movies), it's basically about death, and is told from the point of view of a bitter elder gazing greedily and lustfully backwards towards youth.
The few available shares are greedily snapped up by a cyber-army of online "day traders" via electronic brokerages, such as E*Trade.
It has fallen prey to local politicians greedily eyeing its real estate.If the Gdansk shipyard does end up as office buildings, nobody should be surprised.
A similar thing is happening, he says, in Japan where households are greedily buying overseas assets.
MARY LONOS digs ten tiny fingers into her mother's plump breast and greedily twists the nipple into her toothless mouth.
Rather, it is of an earlier inauspicious marriage, that of Queen Elizabeth the queen mother, consort of King George VI, late mother of Queen Elizabeth II and grandmother to Prince Charles.Readers will search greedily for such parallels, and Mr Shawcross discreetly indulges.
The firm priced the earlier flotation rather greedily, and found that there was nowhere to go but down.
France is eyeing greedily the huge oil and other contracts that will then follow.
Sometimes this maverick behaved greedily, because the experiment had been designed to study the expected ostracism of cheats.
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