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Definition of Overgreedy
1. Adjective. Excessively gluttonous.
Definition of Overgreedy
1. a. Excessively greedy.
Definition of Overgreedy
1. Adjective. Greedy to excess. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overgreedy
Literary usage of Overgreedy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"Rest one, exercise another to the limit, feed those who need food, and starve
the overgreedy; in every case provide a change of daily regime, overdose with ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1840)
"The captain and supercargo, overgreedy of gain, thought to steal a march, and
secure a monopoly of profit over their countrymen. The biter in this instance, ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1772)
"... when it was overgreedy. I never heard it hilling. jt can raife more than one
half of its body from the ground, in order to look about her. ..."
4. The New York Times Current History (1918)
"... and how we are to save the world from the domination of one overgreedy power,
from that point of view no greater misfortune could have occurred than the ..."
5. French Memories of Eighteenth-century America by Charles Hitchcock Sherrill (1915)
"... and possesses a pretty library," showing either that the said Smith was an
overgreedy accumulator of pelf or else, what is more likely, that it required ..."
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