Word "GREEDY" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
(often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous
Synonyms:
avid, devouring, esurient
Examples:
greedy for fame

Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth
Synonyms:
avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, prehensile
Examples:
greedy for money and power

Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
wanting to eat or drink more than one can reasonably consume
Examples:
don't be greedy with the cookies

Crossword Clues for GREEDY

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Clue Source Date
Being avaricious, rush in generally heartlessly (6) Puzzler Cryptic 24 Aug 2025
Wanting too much (6) Mirror Classic 04 Aug 2025
Voracious (6) Puzzler 03 Aug 2025
Insatiable Earl bedding journalist (6)
Finally getting thin - unlikely if this! (6)
Grasping cap on gas piping The Times Cryptic 17 Jul 2025
Avaricious newsman wearing a dull colour. (6)
Gluttonous The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 02 Jul 2025
The man in grey is a glutton (6)
Avaricious German gets thin (6)
Acquisitive (6) The Guardian Quick 29 Apr 2025
Avaricious Commuter 21 Apr 2025
Avid newspaperman provided neutral coverage (6)
Ravenous, jointly decided to lift lid off curry at last
Gluttonous journalist is overly dull (6)
Jen Winston book subtitled "Notes From a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much" USA Today 13 Mar 2025
Avaricious The Telegraph Quick 07 Mar 2025
Voracious journalist in dull surroundings (6)
Like King Midas, notably New York Times 23 Feb 2025
Hungry journalist is overly dull (6)
Piggish The Sun Mini 21 Jan 2025
Being avaricious, rush in generally heartlessly (6) Puzzler Cryptic 16 Jan 2025
Some hungry deer give up, having a voracious appetite (6)
Overly desirous
Selfish editor wearing a drab colour? (6)
Acquisitive director Carol seen in confines of gallery (6)
It's agreed you're somewhat avaricious (6)
Wanting it all Newsday 13 Dec 2024
Avid newspaper boss moved into colour (6)
Gaunt to start with, thin and very hungry (6)
Wanting a lot of guts to be a glutton (6)
The man in grey is eating more than his fair share (6)
Hungry horse devouring half of feed (6)
Gennaro Contaldo and Antonio Carluccio were <i>Two ____ Italians</i> on TV The Times Specialist Sunday 10 Nov 2024
Gennaro Contaldo and Antonio Carluccio were Two ____ Italians on TV
Guilty of one of the seven deadly sins
Why Dee sees the old king as being covetous
Avaricious journalist seen in colour (6)
Having an excessive desire for food (6)
Wanting more than your fair share (6)
The boy in grey is very hard to satisfy (6)
Selfish journalist wearing neutral colour (6)
Wanting too much food or money
Gluttonous The Times Concise 15 Aug 2024
Avaricious man in grey (6)
Voracious The Times Sunday Concise 04 Aug 2024
Scroogelike Newsday 28 Jul 2024
Gluttonous journalist in dull colour
Like Midas LA Times Daily 13 Jul 2024
Avaricious The Telegraph Quick 03 Jul 2024
Gluttonous; avaricious (6)
Grasping news boss seen in black and white (6)
"Be fearful when others are _ and be _ only when others are fearful": Warren Buffett (6)
Grasping editor carried by horse The Sun Two Speed 04 May 2024
Voracious The Sun Two Speed 04 May 2024
Acquisitive actor Oliver entering confines of gallery (6)
When I get covetous, Ed turns grey (6)
Hardly generous USA Today 01 Mar 2024
Gluttonous Mirror Tea Time 07 Feb 2024
Gluttonous King George eyed crumble
Wanting more food or money than you need (6)
Chap from Athens for the most part extremely dreary and covetous (6)
Such a person may have too much on his plate
The dickens of a consumer was Oliver, they alleged, with a craw to call for more! (6,6)
Voracious guzzler originally quite thin The Guardian Cryptic 16 Oct 2023
Opposite of generous USA Today 08 Sep 2023
Climbing in Norway, deer graze with voracity The Telegraph Cryptic 01 Jul 2022
Avaricious The Times Concise 11 Jun 2022
Acquisitive editor printed in paler black? The Times Cryptic 06 Jun 2022
Ultimately becoming thin, with eyes bigger than belly?
Ravenous guy, empty, wolfs venison that's turned
Ravenous guy, empty, wolfs venison that's turned The Guardian Cryptic 10 Mar 2022
Voracious? Gorge, feed? Aye, regularly The Times Cryptic 11 Feb 2022
Like one who can never get enough The Washington Post Sunday 30 Jan 2022
Avaricious Irish Times Simplex 21 Dec 2021
Avaricious Irish Times Simplex 07 Aug 2021
Good and thin — too hungry?
Grabbing grass under golf trolley's bottom The Telegraph Cryptic 02 Mar 2021
Avaricious The Telegraph Quick 26 Nov 2020
. Eager pressman trapped in gloomy surroundings
Gluttonous Greek eyed nervously
Wanting too much Newsday 01 Oct 2020
Excessively craving grass after good year
Avaricious Irish Times Simplex 29 May 2020
Wanting a lot of good grass before day's ending
Greek, wild-eyed when separated, and rapacious The Telegraph Toughie 11 Mar 2020
Gobbling venison up, guy that's heartless and ...? The Telegraph Cryptic 28 Feb 2020
Insatiable gardener periodically visited lady, stripped to the waist
Grasping Newsday 09 Feb 2019
Gluttonous The Telegraph Quick 15 Jan 2019
In harmony, lacking a yen to be avaricious The Telegraph Cryptic 21 Dec 2018
Like gluttons Premier Sunday 18 Nov 2018
Voracious The Sun Two Speed 15 Sep 2018
Grasping editor carried by horse The Sun Two Speed 15 Sep 2018
Girl's thin but voracious
Little boy feeding horse like a pig?
Having eyes bigger than stomach! The Telegraph Quick 23 Jan 2018
Immoderately desirous Universal 19 Jan 2018
Immoderately desirous
Wanting it all USA Today 26 Nov 2017
Edger Cook has male chromosome that's makes one gluttonous Irish Times Crosaire 25 Nov 2017
Money-grubbing USA Today 06 Nov 2017
Insatiable Oriental director consumed by what's not black-and-white Irish Times Crosaire 25 Oct 2017
Covetous Jonesin 24 Oct 2017
Avaricious The Times Concise 12 Jul 2017
Voracious The Telegraph Quick 03 Jul 2017
Uncertain about editor being eager
Wanting too much The Telegraph Quick 19 May 2017
Such a person is likely to have too much on his plate
Failed to start 1 across behind Missy Piggy Irish Times Crosaire 30 Mar 2017
Coveting things too much Newsday 07 Feb 2017
Wanting it all
Money-grubbing
Good and thin – or likely to get fat?
Wanting too much LA Times Daily 07 Dec 2016
Wanting as much as possible for both sides of Greek Tragedy Irish Times Crosaire 05 Nov 2016
Insatiable LA Times Daily 04 Nov 2016
Acquisitive guy that's heartless smuggling grass
Wanting it all The Washington Post 11 Apr 2016
Prone to avarice LA Times Daily 03 Feb 2016
Wanting as much as possible of both sides of Greek Tragedy Irish Times Crosaire 02 Feb 2016
Prone to avarice
Insatiable
Agree dyspepsia's part of being gluttonous
Grabbing cloudy drinks each day for starters
Eager to get good deer back at end of January
Avaricious Eugene Sheffer 17 Oct 2015
Acquisitive editor in dull surroundings The Telegraph Cryptic 17 Jun 2015
Both sides of Greek tragedy seriously materialistic? Irish Times Crosaire 02 Apr 2015
Overly materialistic Wall Street Journal 20 Mar 2015
Overly materialistic
Piggish
Voracious Greek eyed nervously
Grasping edge of gutter piping
Voracious animals turning up in empty granary
Gluttonous journalist tucked into a sort of mullet
Bush "___ Fly"
Hardly generous
Starving journalist drably attired?
23Wanting too much from edition in 2
Gluttonous
Like Midas
Self-motivated?
Avaricious
Moneygrubbing
Wanting it all
Wanting as much as possible
Avaricious
Like pigs
Excessively desirous
Ravenous
Avaricious
Covetous
Like King Midas
Wanting it all
Never satisfied
Avaricious
Wanting it all
Grasping
Covetous
Like Midas
Avaricious
Like Midas
Voracious? Gorge, feed? Aye, regularly
Grasping
Moneygrubbing
Midaslike
Esurient
Possessive
Avaricious
Piggish
Gluttonous
Like a CORMORANT
Rapacious
Like King Midas
Like Silas Marner.
Covetous.
Avaricious.
Gluttonous.
"There is a very fine line between loving life and being ___ for it" (Maya Angelou)
Gormandizing
Piggish
Grasping.
Eager for wealth.
Wanting everything.
Voracious.
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