Definition of "insatiable" adjective comparative more insatiable , superlative most insatiable
Not satiable ; incapable of being satisfied or appeased ; very greedy quotations examples
Quotations Hugo , in a fine frenzy , threatens to depose the Sacristan , to do this and do that ; but , in the mean while , how to quiet your insatiable Jew ? Hugo , for this couple of hundreds , grants the Jew his bond for four hundred payable at the end of four years . (...) Neither yet is this insatiable Jew satisfied or settled with : he had papers against us of 'small debts fourteen years old ;' his modest claim amounts finally to 'Twelve hundred pounds besides interest '
1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 4, Abbot Hugo”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, book II (The Ancient Monk)