greed in English

noun

1

intense and selfish desire for something, especially wealth, power, or food.

His greed and love of power, are of course, allowed to run in parallel by the laws of compulsory purchase.

synonyms: avarice, cupidity, acquisitiveness, covetousness, rapacity, materialism, mercenariness, pleonexia, money-grubbing, affluenza, gluttony, hunger, voracity, insatiability, gourmandism, intemperance, overeating, self-indulgence, piggishness, desire, appetite, hunger, thirst, craving, longing, lust, yearning, hankering, avidity, eagerness, yen, itch

noun

avarice, cupidity, acquisitiveness, covetousness, rapacity, materialism, mercenariness, pleonexia, money-grubbing, affluenza
gluttony, hunger, voracity, insatiability, gourmandism, intemperance, overeating, self-indulgence, piggishness
desire, appetite, hunger, thirst, craving, longing, lust, yearning, hankering, avidity, eagerness, yen, itch
avarice, rapacity, covetousness

Use "greed" in a sentence

1. Another root cause is greed —greed for power and greed for money.

2. Passion, greed, politics.

3. Corporate greed mongers.

4. That's just greed.

5. Eliminating Greed Through Education

6. HATRED OF GREED AND IMMORALITY

7. Greed starts in the heart.

8. His eyes glittered with greed.

9. Greed is a terrible vice.

10. It wasn' t greed

11. The Price of Greed

12. She ridiculed his insatiable greed.

13. Greed led to his downfall.

14. His actions were motivated by greed.

15. His greed looked through his eyes.

16. The satire aimed at modern greed.

17. His motive was plain greed.

18. Avoid the deadly snare of greed.

19. Greed suffocates humanity and intuitive knowledge.

20. Covetousness is a synonym of greed

21. 2 Greed led to his downfall.

22. A mister is characterized by greed.

23. 22 Greed is a terrible vice.

24. His greed was eventually his downfall.

25. Greed was written on his face.

26. He railed against hypocrisy and greed.

27. Greed is a miser's preponderant characteristic.

28. Tiamat – Evil Goddess of Greed and Envy.

29. Nothing would satisfy her greed for power.

30. She killed him to satisfy her greed.

31. His greed for power knows no bounds.

32. I am not greed but I envy.

33. You sputter in greed and in arrogance.

34. That kind of greed makes me puke!

35. 9 Beware the Vulcan greed for knowledge.

36. The word " food " may connote " greed ".

37. Why is Paul’s warning against greed timely?

38. 16 His greed was eventually his downfall.

39. Greed and constricted the nation's cultural life.

40. Their motive was greed, pure and simple .

41. During his sermon, the priest railed against greed.

42. And as you know, greed knows no bounds.

43. Of the water and Bigotry, greed and remorse

44. Some allow greed to throw them off balance.

45. I get fed up with other people's greed.

46. Such is your greed and your plotting.

47. Succeed in Avoiding the Snare of Greed

48. There is no end to inductive greed.

49. The miser was an incarnation of greed.

50. Avarice is a more negative word than greed