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Nothing in the east of France grabs you — ultimately being greedy (8)

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I believe the answer is:

esurient

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'being greedy' is the definition.
(synonyms)

'nothing in the east of france grabs you ultimately' is the wordplay.
'nothing in' becomes 'rien' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'the' becomes 't' (the is pronounced as a 't' sound in some dialects).
'east of' means one lot of letters go next to another (some letters go to the right of others).
'ultimately' says to take the final letters.
The final letters of 'france grabs you' are 'esu'.
'rien'+'t'='rient'
'rient' after 'esu' is 'ESURIENT'.

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(Other definitions for esurient that I've seen before include "Greedy; ensure it (anag.)" , "Hungry; retinues (anag.)" , "Hungry, greedy" , "Rapacious" , "could eat a horse" .)

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