tān | greedy |
贪 | to have a voracious desire for to covet greedy |
贪便宜 | anxious to get things on the cheap |
贪占 | embezzle |
贪吃 | gluttonous voracious |
贪吃症 | [Medicine] polyphagia |
贪吃者 | glutton |
贪嘴 | gluttonous |
贪图 | to covet to seek (riches, fame) |
贪图安逸 | to seek ease and comfort |
贪图小利 | to covet small advantages; to hanker after petty gains |
贪多 | grasp too much |
贪多务得 | insatiable covetousness |
贪多嚼不烂 | to bite off more than one can chew (idiom) |
贪大求洋 | crave for things big and foreign; go after what is big and foreign |
贪天之功 | take credit for what has been done by others |
贪婪 | avaricious greedy rapacious |
贪婪是万恶之源 | Greed is the root of all evil. |
贪官 | corrupt official grasping functionary greedy mandarin |
贪官污吏 | grasping officials, corrupt mandarins (idiom); abuse and corruption |
贪小 | covet a little |