greedfulとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

greedful (comparative more greedful, superlative most greedful)

1. Characterized by greed; greedy.
   • 1975, William Herbert Sheldon, Prometheus revisited:

     In a society where it is important to get a (first panel surplus) advantage over other persons, the young man tends to surrender his individual ideals and to adopt instead, as a mask, the ideals and purposes and language and philosophy that make up a sort of common denominator for the "mafia" or predatory agglutination that is bound together in the greedful quest.

   • 2014, Anantanand Rambachan, A Hindu Theology of Liberation: Not-Two Is Not One, →ISBN, page 78:

     Freedom from greed unties the knot of greedful actions, but does not diminish our capacity to act.

   • 2015, Kate Elliott, Black Wolves, →ISBN:

     Nor would I wish to bind myself to a woman stained by greedful lust.