I think that punishment by depriving children of sweets only develops their greediness.
Being often very hungry when he sat down to his meals, he contracted a habit of eating with ravenous greediness.
The Fijians combined with this greediness a savage and merciless natures.
He sets the Normans before us as a race specially marked by cunning, despising their own inheritance in the hope of winning a greater, eager after both gain and dominion, given to imitation of all kinds, holding a certain mean between lavishness and greediness - that is, perhaps uniting, as they certainly did, these two seemingly opposite qualities.