greedily
In grasping fashion
Greedily describes doing something with excessive eagerness or desire, especially eating or acquiring: He greedily devoured the entire pizza, She greedily snatched up the last remaining tickets.
The word implies taking more than one's fair share or consuming with unseemly haste.
With strong appetite
- voraciouslyWith extreme hunger
- insatiablyWithout possibility of satisfaction
- wolfishlyIn a fierce, greedy manner
- ravenouslyWith extreme hunger
gluttonously · rapaciously · desperately · urgently · fiercely · intensely
With covetous desire
- jealouslyWith covetous resentment
- longinglyWith intense desire
- yearninglyWith intense wistful desire
- desirouslyWith strong wanting
lustfully · wantonly · eagerly · hungrily · obsessively · possessively · ambitiously · rapaciously
Excessive accumulation of goods
- graspingGreedy for wealth
- acquisitiveDesiring material gain
- money-grubbingObsessively seeking wealth
- mercenarySoldier fighting for pay
exploitative · profiteering · monopolizing · extorting · amassing · clutching · seizing · grabbing
hungrily
With strong appetite
- voraciouslyWith extreme hunger
- insatiablyWithout possibility of satisfaction
- wolfishlyIn a fierce, greedy manner
ravenously · gluttonously · rapaciously · desperately · urgently · fiercely · intensely
enviously
With covetous desire
- jealouslyWith covetous resentment
- longinglyWith intense desire
- yearninglyWith intense wistful desire
desirously · lustfully · wantonly · eagerly · hungrily · obsessively · possessively · ambitiously · rapaciously · avariciously
hoarding
Excessive accumulation of goods
- graspingGreedy for wealth
- acquisitiveDesiring material gain
- money-grubbingObsessively seeking wealth
mercenary · exploitative · profiteering · monopolizing · extorting · amassing · clutching · seizing · grabbing · snatching
gobbling
Eating fast and messily
snarfing · gorging · stuffing · cramming · inhaling · bolting · guzzling · slurping · chomping · devouring
greedilygenerously
With free-giving spirit
selflessly · altruistically · charitably · magnanimously · benevolently
greedilyascetically
In self-denying manner
abstemiously · moderately · temperately · sparingly · frugally