Usually means: Desiring more than one's share.
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  1. pleonectic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. pleonectic: Collins English Dictionary
  3. pleonectic: Wordnik
  4. pleonectic: Wiktionary
  5. pleonectic: Dictionary.com
  6. pleonectic: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words

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  2. pleonectic: Medical dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Greedy; covetous.

Similar:
closehanded, lucripetous, piggish, narrow, hard-fisted, plunderous, preyful, cupidinous, close-handed, costive, more...

Opposite:
non-greedy, selfless, altruistic

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Similar:
closehanded, lucripetous, piggish, narrow, hard-fisted, plunderous, preyful, cupidinous, close-handed, costive, more...

Opposite:
non-greedy, selfless, altruistic



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