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Simple sentences
Tom certainly is greedy.
Don't get greedy.
A miser hoards money not because he is prudent but because he is greedy.
Don't be so greedy or you'll wind up with nothing.
That proposal may be a way to kill two birds with one stone, but we also have to be careful not to get greedy and spoil everything.
Don't be so greedy.
Don't put your greedy hands on my money.
He is selfish and greedy.
She was greedy for love.
Men are greedy.
Human society is a function of all humanity, those who profit most from it should pay the most for the benefit they gain, of course being greedy, they just want more.
Greedy people always want more stuff.
Humans are greedy.
Tom shouldn't be so greedy.
He's greedy and lazy.
Tom's greedy.
He is greedy and lazy.
We're greedy.
Tom is greedy.
I'm greedy.
Movie subtitles
That guy is so greedy!
The greedy bastard!
All major emotions are greedy.
The greedy old diable.
We don't want to appear greedy.
I've never seen the outside world, but I understand there are many people who are supposed to be mean and greedy.
Where they wouldn't have to be mean and greedy.
You wandered off. like a wanton, greedy child. to break your heart and mine.
As indomitably greedy as the love for a woman!
If we act all together, he wouldn't deny himself a profit, he's too greedy.
Horrible, faded, fat, greedy women.
Once they get a few dollars, they become greedy and want more. - More. More.
He got his, for being greedy. He wasn't satisfied, so the final wind up was he took the count.
A beautiful, greedy child.
Cruel, evil, greedy, plundering peaceful cities. torturing their captives.
Of all the greedy things!
I say, we don't want to appear greedy.
No, now, greedy.
Don't be so greedy.
Think of all the misery's it's brought to the poor wretches who lay greedy hands on it.
I anticipate superb offspring. And I'm going to be a little greedy about them.
Greedy?
They will be extremely greedy.
You're getting a little greedy, don't you think?
You're too greedy.
Seeing the money makes you greedy.
Torquil, you greedy swine!
I loathe people who are frugal and greedy.
The ships of Europe will crowd thicker on our seas, greedy for conquest.
She wants one, she means, greedy old bag.
Sometimes, men get greedy.
This guy's greedy as hell.
You're getting greedy, Oscar.
Just as disgusting, just as greedy, just as cowardly.
News and current affairs
We cannot make investors less greedy.
Almost every day, we learn of yet another greedy US corporate chief executive who conspired with accountants, lawyers, and investment bankers to defraud the investing public.
But were the traders and bankers of the sub-prime saga more greedy, arrogant, and immoral than the Gekkos of the 1980's?
Some evidence suggests that there is a link between the level of dopamine, addiction, and greedy behavior.
Some will object that this idea won't work because it runs counter to greedy human nature.
Ever since 2001, when France enacted a law requiring listed companies to reveal their executives' pay packages, newspapers have had a field day denouncing greedy bosses.
The moral society, based on decent self-interest, that Thatcher hoped to establish became the greedy society, based on coarse self-regard.
Ask any leftist activist, and the IMF competes with greedy multinationals as the lowest form of life.
If a fair one-time payment is offered, it is likely to be taken up by a majority of civil servants, and public opinion will frown upon the greedy or lazy ones who turn it down.
They fail to do so not only because they are greedy, but also because they are scared.
Finally, the investors who bought MBS's and CDO's were greedy and believed the misleading ratings.
Libya is experiencing a deadly struggle between people insisting on change, and a desperate, greedy regime determined to cling to power after 40 years of crass misrule.
Could money itself, whether we are greedy for it or not, be a problem?
The Socialists blame greedy financiers, but who does not?
Entrepreneurs are greedy by definition: if they were not, they would go bankrupt.
Thus, the US has virtually pulled out of the Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations, with Obama acquiescing to greedy business lobbies that will not settle unless more of their demands are met.
Moreover, the problem is not just that long-term shareholders are shafted by greedy short-term agents; even the shareholders have agency problems.
The broader implication is that we need to look beyond greedy bankers and spineless regulators (and there were plenty of both) for the root causes of this crisis.
For the indigenous majority who remained poor, such cronyism spawned an image of the Chinese as corrupt and unscrupulously greedy.
Nor is it the result of the collapse of a speculation-fueled asset bubble, the violation of the Maastricht criteria, ballooning debt, or greedy banks.
In European eyes, Americans lack such sophisticated understanding, and often have no interest in acquiring it, seeing the land around and beyond Israel as populated largely by greedy oil sheikhs and dangerous religious fanatics.
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