Practice JLPTMeaning
貪る (むさぼる, musaboru) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “be greedy; covet”.
Example sentences 7
彼はむさぼるように 水を 飲んだ
He drank the water greedily.
いいのよ。
今後せいぜい 良心 的な 商売にはげめばいいんだわ。
Never mind that. After all up till now he's stuffed himself on huge profit selling high brand-name goods of no real worth. From now on he can just try his best at honest trade.
お 腹を 空かせたその 男は、 食物をむさぼり 食った。
The starving man devoured the food.
いままで 実のないブランド 品を 高く 売りつけて 暴利をむさぼってきたんだから。
これには国家が利益追求を行って庶民から財を貪るものだとして儒学者から反対の声が上がり、次の昭帝(漢)の代にはこの政策の賛否を巡る論争会が開かれた（この論争を纏めたのが『塩鉄論』であると言われている）。
Confucian scholars protested agasint this policy, saying that the nation was pursuing profits and depriving the property of the common people, so the next Emperor Zhao (Han) held a debate to discuss the pros and cons of this policy (it is said that this debate was summarized into "Discourses on Salt and Iron").
明け方から何も口にしていなかったので, 彼は貪るように食べた. He took the food eagerly, for he had eaten nothing since dawn.延暦寺の権威を背景として暴利を貪る者や公卿の邸宅に押し入って督促をする者など傍若無人な振舞いも目立った。
There were frequent instances of insolent behavior: some made excessive profit by taking advantage of Enryaku-ji Temple's authority, and some broke into residences of Kugyo (top court officials) to bully them into paying a debt.