It isn't hard to look around and see examples of greedy people, people who love money. |
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She was greedy for power, and didn't let morals get in the way of her pursuit of it. |
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Opening his mouth, Peter took greedy gulps of it, allowing the cool gushes of water to douse his parched throat. |
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Main meals are either started or concluded with a cereal bar, depending on how greedy I feel. |
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In some texts, they say he dwells in a cave far from the reaches of the curious and greedy. |
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This would create a frictionless economy in which all greedy, inefficient middlemen would be effectively cut out of the action. |
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Indeed, just now there are too many acorns for even such greedy birds as crows and magpies. |
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Then there are those who prey on the weak or the greedy, promising to alter the future, cast good luck charms, prophecy only good things etc. |
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But gone are the days when overmighty Governments or greedy and arrogant ministers were its targets. |
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In doing so it created disgustingly large food mountains, overproducing unwanted food simply to keep greedy farmers in business. |
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The answer is they are greedy and cheap, just like the executives of the supermarket. |
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One great alternative to getting ripped off by greedy lenders is to join a credit union. |
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Unlike the greedy profiteers and corporate chieftains who actually made money on those stocks, we were not acting irresponsibly. |
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But the real danger for these three men is each other as they become greedy, suspicious and paranoid. |
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But it would be a pardonable exaggeration to say that, for most writers, greedy to learn and emulate, this is the only important question. |
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The next decade looks to be one that could be characterised by equally greedy shareholders hungry for dividends. |
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The horse was a bit green and just idled when he hit the front, but hey, don't be greedy! |
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These treasure hunters were coarse and greedy types whose only intention was plunder. |
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In fact our rulers are greedy for even more to go into their pockets at our expense. |
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Salaries and perquisites are unlikely to have kept greedy men satisfied enough to prevent it. |
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The wives are greedy and the men, in the absence of any well-regulated women, are recklessly improvident. |
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After the Spanish conquest, greedy colonialists began plundering the Inca's realm. |
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Almost down to his last low, although this time round, he had been such a greedy pig. |
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He couldn't help but admire how much more of a fat, greedy, oafish pig his uncle had become in his absence. |
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They are so good in fact, that they'll make you so greedy and piggish that you'll eat two in one sitting and feel sick. |
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It's that I have come to resemble a huge, distended pigskin sack that has been stuffed to bursting point with offal and custard by greedy giants. |
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And that is why I find it a bit rich, if you excuse the pun, of Mark McCormack to claim that golfers are too greedy. |
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Their pitilessness for those in power is to be feared more than any usurper's greedy heart. |
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Grip the horn and tip it toward your greedy mouth, drinking of the filth, corruption and frothy, unintentional comedy contained within. |
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I mean, let's be honest here, asking you to better it would be just plain greedy of me, wouldn't it? |
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It wasn't as if the Mini was an especially greedy consumer of petrol in the first place. |
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Will they see us as greedy consumers, selfishly gobbling up the world's resources. |
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Between the folds of the bottom towel in the linen closet, he retrieved a silver flask and took several greedy swallows. |
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In all, a disastrous start to a marketing concept clearly executed by greedy fools. |
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Serves it right, the ladies say, for being such a greedy porker in the past. |
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At heart, it's got to do with what the greedy do with their money and possessions. |
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If we were not greedy, possessive creatures why would we need a means to measure our worth? |
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I used to be greedy and could eat for England, but the great thing is I lost the weight by eating the same things but just more sensibly. |
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Could his death have been the consequence of a greedy search for treasure, or is this yet another apocryphal story? |
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The other view, of course, is of the angry worker, portrayed as greedy and selfish during strikes. |
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Diet expert Rachel Hall has some bulge-busting advice for greedy guts this Christmas. |
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Seriously, though, they're modestly sized so good for children, or for greedy guts who can happily scoff more than one. |
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They set up a fake company that appeals to greedy businessmen keen for a rort and the race is on. |
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Making our way up the gently ascending road that cut its way through the forest, we saw hordes of greedy monkeys waiting for freebies. |
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They are superbly rich, as chocolatey, gooey and indulgent as any fantasising slimmer, or out-and-out greedy guts, could ever wish for. |
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The developer's attempt to by-pass local authority rulings appears to residents here to be both greedy and lazy. |
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Meantime the people in England gave him up for lost, and the hand of the wealthy and beautiful countess became the aim of the greedy courtiers. |
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Doctors know that the vast majority of fat people are the way they are because of their sustained greedy eating habits. |
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They are sometimes pugilistic, invariably dominant, and often greedy for power. |
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Dennis groped his greedy hands over the box of food that Adrian had kept so securely beside him. |
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For some workers and lumpenproletariat, it is a revolt against greedy capitalists. |
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Diet expert Rachel Halkyard has some bulge-busting advice for greedy guts this Christmas. |
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Property developers are greedy and want to build as many houses as they can and make a lot of money without thinking of the consequences. |
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It is being greedy because it is taking the wealth off the people who created it. |
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I got my present from my secret Santa today and, being a greedy little monkey, I opened it right up. |
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He said, as a nation people had become so greedy that they had lost their love of the environment and failed to protect it. |
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Folks got more and more greedy, throwing their life savings and retirement money into the market. |
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Squirrels, badgers, dormice, and larger animals such as deer are greedy for it. |
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It's partly the result, he says, of our endless greedy appetite for the good things of life. |
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A greedy otter has left a Preston grandfather scratching his head for a solution to stop the animal slinking into his pond to eat his fish. |
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Gone are interesting characters like the greedy and treacherous aide, and that marvelous biplane. |
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Thus, banks became greedy, taking on huge risks in hopes of even bigger rewards. |
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If we copied such a place, all we'd be left with is ugly glass and concrete and a bunch of greedy materialists. |
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What I saw was an evil, greedy cult attempting to strong-arm people into silence. |
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During waking hours she's fielding phone calls every weekend, eager to feed the greedy maw of celebrity gossip. |
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I'm going to jam every bit of everything offered into my greedy maw until my curiosity is assuaged. |
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My Cat is really greedy and ate a dish of hot curry I had left on the counter. |
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The new restaurant is a great success and allows her to continue her indulgence of the increasingly greedy and self-absorbed Veda. |
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There are millions who never resort to violence or abuse others, who never are dishonest, selfish or greedy in their business dealings. |
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Suspicious buyers could draw the wrong conclusions, equating cosy partnerships with greedy cartels. |
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We will be spared the horrors of greedy, selfish and self-serving individuals who trample over people so that they can get a million dollars. |
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Anthony had been the one who was greedy for his family's wealth wanting to use it for his own ends. |
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We conducted an impromptu windfall apple hunt, nearly as much fun as an Easter Egg hunt, and went to feed the greedy beasts. |
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I know these creatures are noisy, greedy, messy and will take the ice cream cone right out of your hand but I still love them. |
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The present system is teaching our children to be greedy for personal glory. |
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Professionals seemed as greedy and acquisitive as any other group of workers. |
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It's a grasping, greedy society, fuelled by educational expectation and privilege. |
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Quin constructs a tree in a top-down greedy fashion, similar to decision tree induction algorithms. |
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Human nature makes men and their companies greedy and makes corrupt governments turn blind eyes. |
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I've got an etiquette question because I can't decide if I'm being cheap and greedy or thoroughly modern. |
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People in York mostly think that estate agents are a rip-off, greedy, corrupt, or that they are cowboys or sharks. |
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Not, as your dear little daughter there seems to think, because I am greedy, but because I am always punctual, in justice to the cook. |
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These are greedy, shiftless and lazy people who only use and abuse the soil. |
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Hm, so you're saying that people are greedy and will do horrible things to advance their own wealth and power? |
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Why have those greedy farmers and construction workers gouging the public when a typically efficient government agency can meet our needs. |
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I have not gossiped, lost my temper, been greedy, nasty, selfish, or self-indulgent. |
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I am taking a keen interest in bird watching and feeding a troop of greedy sparrows who are devouring everything I put out there. |
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We can't get too greedy, we've gone six games undefeated, seven on the trot with the cup matches. |
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Never put rocks in the feed trough to slow down a greedy eater as this could cause a fracture tooth if the horse bites a rock. |
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They were ruthless and greedy, plundering king's troves of gold and any treasure they can get their thieving claws on. |
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He also takes his swings at the greedy northeastern moneybags' who exploit the South for its cheap labor plantation economics. |
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The point about speculators, greedy money men that they may be, is that they tend to be ruled by the fundamentals. |
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Owners with money don't really need to evaluate raw talent, just buy players who are greedy. |
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It shows moreover that most ordinary people are not innately selfish and greedy. |
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They can think of nothing to say or do but whinge the greedy good-for-nothings. |
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In that city was the opportunity for glory, and no man could deny the greedy desire for glory. |
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The mythological god of riches guards the fourth circle, which holds the prodigal and the greedy. |
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The government must get it into their heads that customers shell out hard-earned money in restaurants towards greedy sin taxes. |
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These greedy muckers, they would cheat the village of their money and maybe one day they would just rebel and loot the village! |
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The greedy geese drove off the ducks and chased after pensioners, hoping for a feed. |
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Before the time of greedy kings, gallant knights, and courtly love, there was a time when woodland creatures still roamed the earth. |
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All the while, a gang of greedy grubbers was taking 11 million dollars worth of that money. |
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They are a greedy muttonheaded publisher and they think only one quarter's profit ahead. |
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Yes, many are also uninspired and greedy, just like many other people in many other businesses. |
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Should the clever and greedy be permitted to prey on the slow-witted and foolish? |
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You have to accept that human beings are essentially greedy, and motivated by the pursuit of wealth. |
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Privatisations were conducted corruptly for the enrichment of a greedy few. |
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Players are becoming greedy for money and attention and they don't seem to care about forming a great team. |
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The players are greedy, wanting more than they need or are probably worth, and are power hungry. |
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Or you can become really, really greedy, like any number of people we know, their desk drawers rustling with the crinkle of unshared sweets. |
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Human nature is greedy, devious and sleazy, and most salacious tabloid stories are merely reflecting that fact. |
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The blackcurrant bush is alive with the wings and chirps of greedy blackbirds gorging themselves. |
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But if we persist in our short-sighted and, let face it, greedy attitude to school places, then we're sowing the seeds of future anarchy. |
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Instead of greedy capitalists owning the corporation, the workers themselves will own it. |
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It's a documentary about villagers who have been cheated out of their land by greedy businesses. |
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I've seen Titanic enough times to know that rich people are fatuous and greedy, while poor people are noble and virtuous. |
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We watch like greedy voyeurs as he walks away from the world and its troubles. |
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He is a power-hungry miser, a greedy manipulator of people, who robs the inhabitants of the town of which he is mayor. |
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They then navigate back in the dark and head for their burrows before any predators catch them regurgitating the fish for their greedy chicks. |
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Can he be characterized as a greedy ambulance-chaser who is single-handedly responsible for runaway lawsuits? |
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Ultimately, most crime arises not from greedy human nature, but from privation and the social dislocation that accompanies it. |
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She's very cold and distant, and she seems to be cruel, greedy, and insensitive to society. |
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Once he sees the way that his greedy, loveless life will end if he continues in his ways, Scrooge promises to be a more charitable, generous person to prevent such an end. |
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But this soft and greedy subversive organelle is no match for the brilliance of our scientists! |
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I think they are greedy and trying to recapture their youth! |
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As long as the sun continues to shine and the wind to blow, the supply of renewables remains unaffected by foreign-oil cartels or greedy manipulators. |
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A grasping and greedy ethos seems to be what grips most of our citizens. |
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But Harry, handsome ex-Marine and feted author, is greedy for more happiness than Maddy, a WASP goddess, gives him. |
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Perhaps someday it will return to Victoria's inner harbour and enlighten the city with approbatory friendly fire in greedy pursuit of our oil, gas, and fresh water. |
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It would be unfeasible, I thought, and not a little greedy, to cover a gruelling election campaign, only to face another three-week marathon in Athens. |
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This isn't a greedy seller asking a ridiculous amount no one will pay. |
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Only the greedy say that greed is good and there is no shaming of the shameless. |
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Writer Rebecca Serle will surely get some hate mail for reimagining Juliet as a greedy, jealous girl. |
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The first act deals with the beastly behaviour of bees and act two features avaricious beetles, greedy ducks and dopey crickets with a pronounced Cork accent. |
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All around the greedy jackjaws, blackbirds, thrushes and magpies eye the ripening fruit and at the exact moment that the fruit ripens they pounce leaving nothing but pips. |
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Our King was, in a simple statement, a greedy, power-hungry covetous hog. |
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She is sensuous, grasping, self-absorbed, fierce, greedy, megalomaniacal, and utterly certain that she is entitled to have her ego, her power, and her way. |
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Fans of the hit TV show know what a greedy old tightwad Mr. Burns is. |
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Soon these two rather different pursuits become intertwined as our designated heroes find themselves under assault from a tinpot dictator and a greedy Western industrialist. |
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Meanwhile, the world's nasty types the greedy, the vicious, the self-serving, the nutters go on their merry way, as murderously unambiguous as ever. |
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In greedy desperation, Oberon plans to distract Titania by having his impish henchman Puck slip her a mickey, causing her to fall in love with something repulsive. |
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The campaign has set out to toxify him as a greedy executive. |
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Eisenhower warned Americans of an internal threat from militarist officers and greedy weapons contractors who were seeking to control foreign policy. |
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I in turn don't contain even the merest trace elements of sympathy for the ambitious, vain and greedy trendoids who masquerade as contestants on these shows. |
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We linger in the city's few remaining open spaces, desolate and serene as large monolithic apartment blocks overlook the fertile land like greedy developers. |
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This concern often stands in marked contrast with the callous and greedy unconcern of the current wielders of power and influence in the Middle East. |
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When her little sister gets shot up with some bad smack by a greedy dope pusher, Coffy decides to exact her revenge all the way up the food chain. |
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The ambitious, the greedy and the powerful lunged for the huge profits that could be made. |
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Her ambition was painted as ruthless and her lack of money only further served to indict her as a greedy criminal. |
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The desktop Trash Can, window buttons, dialog boxes and a task scheduler have all been claimed as intellectual property in a snowstorm of greedy patent filings. |
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Isn't it time the British music industry and their promoters got less greedy, especially as some of their main customers are unwaged kids and students? |
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The ruling class is obnoxiously greedy, despoiling our planet and exploiting the people on it with a few bare restraints provided by popular pressure over the last century. |
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You have criticized the greedy capitalists for breaking unions, leveling entire industries, and throwing men out of work to shift jobs to cheap labor havens. |
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A huge stockyard for which they have a vested financial interest in corraling with space based barbed wire and harvesting on behalf of their own greedy appetites. |
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Sounds like a clear cut case of rapacious health care companies heartlessly trying to squeeze the hospitals for the benefit of their greedy shareholders, doesn't it? |
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He says there is a social aspect to the credit union movement, which consumers tired of greedy financial service industry operators find refreshing. |
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I personally was encouraged from an early age to regard your country as opportunistic at minimum, greedy at best, and the worst bully in the playground at worst. |
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But if you must be greedy, the hotel has lots of pampering facilities, including a fitness room, sauna and treatment rooms offering facials and massage. |
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He's a pious hypocrite and a greedy, petty, stupid, mean-minded crook. |
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To be fair, this exhortation is not simply an invitation to be greedy. |
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Not only does pushing and shoving seem undignified, but such behaviour immediately marks the offender as a greedy glutton who has not been able to enjoy the best. |
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Canadian documentary The Corporation, which depicts large companies as greedy, manipulative, deceitful psychopaths, is currently enjoying box-office success. |
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By holding on to the bulk of the land to the detriment of the millions of suffering peasants, the white farmers were made to look greedy and callous. |
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This should theoretically keep the squirrel from being able to climb the pole, although especially greedy squirrels have been known to get past them. |
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Some of the companies are still being run as greedy, petty fiefdoms. |
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Therefore many greedy landlords do not do repairs, unless forced to. |
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Invest in what you know or understand and don't be too greedy. |
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People in the real world can be violent, greedy and dishonest. |
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Employees of a nonprofit rarely make as much as greedy counterparts in the commercial world. |
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He is so exceedingly greedy and harsh with the people, there are very heavy complaints against him from Strathnaver. |
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I would have felt a bit greedy wishing for wins for both Australia and Scotland but it turned out to be a red letter day. |
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Hollier was a chomper, his jaws working up and down like pistons, and without seeming to be greedy he ate a great deal. |
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That greedy kike would not give me any money when I was starving and needed food. |
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Newspapers pointed at greedy contractors who used shoddy materials, slipshod methods and the help of corrupt officials to bypass building codes. |
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That corporation is only slightly pettier than they are greedy, and they are overdue to reap the consequences. |
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Just as Ithaca came into sight, the greedy sailors naively opened the bag while Odysseus slept, thinking it contained gold. |
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There are many stories in India about greedy people trying to possess this gem and ending up getting killed. |
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Though the barber had drank down this story with greedy ears, he was not yet satisfied. |
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Employees of a non-profit rarely make as much as greedy counterparts in the commercial world. |
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A few examples will demonstrate the cultural basis of individualistic, greedy, and anticooperative behavior. |
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Now War is about to rage across Fovea, and the greedy Eldadorian government is at the center of it. |
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The money came easily, and, like many Greeks, she says she was greedy. |
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Daturas, on the other hand, are greedy plants needing lots of feeding and frequent repotting when we grow them as patio pot plants. |
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Daturas, angel's trumpet and fuchsias are particularly greedy and should be fed twice weekly. |
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Behind the Daffy Duck smile and customary tennis net veil, there lurked a greedy, bossy, old crabstick. |
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The Government may be comfortable with banks being greedy for profits and paying squillions to their senior managers, but I am not. |
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Banks are run by greedy so-and-sos who live up to the rhyming slang of their job titles. |
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Unfortunately, I think too many legislators think of slumlords or greedy landlords when they think of apartments. |
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They are almost always small and grotesque, mischievous or outright evil, and greedy, especially for gold and jewelry. |
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We must arrest and return their fugitive slaves with greedy pleasure. |
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Billy Bunter, the 'Fat Owl of the Remove,' was famous for his greedy appetite, in particular his insatiable desire for jam tarts and doughnuts. |
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Yet even greedy rug rats go out of their way to share cool stuff equally if they've worked together to get it, a new study finds. |
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I requested a little spoonful of kulfi or Indian ice cream as well but not because I was greedy, it was more out of research. |
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Daturas are particularly greedy and should be fed twice a week. |
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What worries me is that prospective patients are increasingly at risk due to poor regulation and sometimes unspecialised, greedy doctors and practitioners. |
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Bread fished with feeder tactics is likely to be the best bait for chub, which like big baits, though cheese, meat and lobworms will always attract a greedy chub. |
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Two characters, the Pardoner and the Summoner, whose roles apply the Church's secular power, are both portrayed as deeply corrupt, greedy, and abusive. |
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Right from the heart-stopping opening, and all the way to its cheer-provoking climax, it compels you to read on like a cokehead greedy for line after line after line. |
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For a gangly, greedy teenager, it was bliss to be served the first Fish Roll to come out of the boiling cauldron of oil, washed down by a bottle of the club soda. |
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Ye sonnes of Venus, play your sports at will, For greedy pleasure, carelesse of your toyes, Thinks more upon her paradise of joyes, Then what ye do, albe it good or ill. |
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But the predatory pricing of airlines will see hopes dashed for many who simply cannot afford to pay the rip-off inflated prices being offered by greedy airlines. |
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In Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Jones is older and wiser, whereas his sidekicks Mutt and Mac are youthfully arrogant and greedy, respectively. |
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Robber Footpad's former anthropophagic ways are forgotten in his new Cultural Revolution guise as a valiant Robin Hood who protects the weak from greedy tyrants. |
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But who cares if FIFA is a corrupt organisation run by a cabal of dishonest, greedy, self-serving, old boys, parasitically cashing in on the game? |
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The brutalisation of women and prostitution go hand in hand and victims of this seedy trade are constantly under threat from greedy pimps and violent clients. |
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But the two of them are just beginning to scratch the surface of a lethal conspiracy between greedy corporate executives, the Russian Mafia, and Afghani terrorists. |
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It came after Manic Street Preachers frontman James Dean Bradfield unleashed an f-word rant about greedy Irish bankers during the Welsh rockers' performance at Punchestown. |
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