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(of an official) corrupt and negligent of his duty
avaricious and insatiable (idiom); greedy and never satisfied
to be corrupt / corruption / to embezzle
HSK 7-9
avaricious / greedy / rapacious / insatiable / avid
HSK 7-9
to be avaricious and mean
corrupt official / grasping functionary / greedy mandarin
grasping officials, corrupt mandarins (idiom); abuse and corruption
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *贪* | 贪* | *贪
to have a voracious desire for / to covet / greedy / corrupt
HSK 7-9
glutton / chowhound
gluttonous / greedy / insatiable / avid
penny wise and pound foolish (idiom)
greedy for sex / given to lust for women
to be greedy in getting money
to claim credit for other people's achievements (idiom)
greedy for life, afraid of death (idiom); craven and cowardly / clinging abjectly to life / only interested in saving one's neck
to covet / to seek (riches, fame)
avaricious and insatiable (idiom); greedy and never satisfied
to only want to have a good time / to just want to have fun, and to shy away from self-discipline
corruption and abuse of the law (idiom); to take bribes and bend the law
gluttonous
to cling to / to be reluctant to give up (sth) / to have a fondness for (an indulgence etc)
to drink in excess
avaricious and insatiable (idiom); greedy and never satisfied
greed / avarice / rapacious / avid
avaricious and insatiable (idiom); greedy and never satisfied
glutton
(idiom) corruption
to pursue greedily / to crave
gluttonous; greedy
gluttonous; voracious
corruption
to misappropriate
insatiably greedy (idiom)
to bite off more than one can chew (idiom)
greed for bribes knows no bounds (idiom); unbridled corruption
greedy
corruption
erhua variant of 貪玩|贪玩
HSK 7-9


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