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scavenging
adj. searching for and feeding on decaying matter: "scavenging hyenas and vultures"
scavenging
adj. searching for and salvaging anything useful from discarded material: "scavenging larvae"
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crapulous
adj. given to gross intemperance in eating or drinking; "a crapulous old reprobate"
crapulent, crapulous
adj. suffering from excessive eating or drinking; "crapulent sleep"; "a crapulous stomach"
edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish
adj. devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves"; "voracious sharks"
greedy
adj. wanting to eat or drink more than one can reasonably consume; "don't be greedy with the cookies"
hoggish, piggish, piggy, porcine, swinish
adj. resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy; "piggish table manners"; "the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father"; "swinish slavering over food"
overgreedy, too-greedy
adj. excessively gluttonous
economical, frugal, scotch, sparing, stinting
adj. avoiding waste; "an economical meal"; "an economical shopper"; "a frugal farmer"; "a frugal lunch"; "a sparing father and a spending son"; "sparing in their use of heat and light"; "stinting in bestowing gifts"; "thrifty because they remember the great Depression"; "`scotch' is used only informally"
penny-wise
adj. thrifty in small matters only
saving
adj. characterized by thriftiness; "wealthy by inheritance but saving by constitution"- Ellen Glasgow
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