Xun Kuang

Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.

Chinese Philosopher

Isabella Bird

The Tigris is so fierce and rapid, and swallows its alluvial banks so greedily, that it is probable that some of the buildings described by the Hebrew traveller Benjamin of Tudela as existing in the twelfth century were long since carried away.

English Explorer

Isaac Barrow

Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.

English Mathematician

Christopher Hitchens

To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

American Author

Denis Diderot

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

French Editor

Using 'greedily' can suggest disapproval, as it often implies excessive or inappropriate desire.

Negative Implication

The word 'greedily' conveys intense emotions; it's stronger than just 'wanting' something.

Emotional Intensity

'Greedily' can be used in lighthearted contexts where the strength of desire is not serious.

Not Always Negative

 keeps her calf apart from the herd nursing greedily he's packing on a pound and a half a day