greedily
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English gredyly, gredily, from Old English grǣdiglīce, grǣdelīce; equivalent to greedy + -ly.
Adverb[edit]
greedily (comparative more greedily, superlative most greedily)
- In a greedy manner; with keen or ardent desire.
- 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 344:
- There he ordered beer from the adenoidal Chinese manager and drank the afternoon away, greedily swilling bottle after bottle, feeling gradually his adulthood return.
Translations[edit]
in a greedy manner
References[edit]
- “greedily”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.