greedy

The answer may be that animals are greedy: they need a lot of oxygen to grow big and complicated.

Only the greedy say that greed is good and there is no shaming of the shameless.

But this soft and greedy subversive organelle is no match for the brilliance of our scientists!

We must arrest and return their fugitive slaves with greedy pleasure.

The  Silicon Valley tech firms tend to be  every bit as cutthroat and greedy as any capitalist enterprise before it.

The mother played her accompaniments and at the same time watched her daughter with greedy admiration and nervous apprehension.

Whenever he visited the garden he told everybody that he should never come there again because Grandfather Mole was too greedy.

Though this may be accounted for by the fact that he was a greedy reader—of any and every thing which came his way.

Madame Malmaison knew it also, but the hard look on her greedy face did not soften.

With a mind greedy after all manner of information, he had not omitted to inquire closely into ecclesiastical matters.