Synonym: avarice, desire, lust. Similar words: creed, breed, Greek, greet, green, agree, degree, agree to. Meaning: [grɪːd] n. 1. excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves 2. reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins).
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31. Greed is a disease of modern society.
32. Greed and aggressiveness constricted the nation's cultural life.
33. Their motive was greed, pure and simple .
34. The judge criticized the "outrageous greed" of some of the lawyers.
35. It was not greed but ambition that drove him to crime.
36. The word " food " may connote " greed ".
37. As long as the operative word is "greed", you can't count on people keeping the costs down.
38. There is evidence that the industry's greed means that it is cutting off its nose to spite its face.
39. Greed, pride, envy, dishonesty and lust are considered to be vices.
40. Greed lured him on.
41. I had another helping of ice cream out of pure greed.
42. His suicide is the latest chapter in this terrible saga of greed and betrayal.
43. He was the victim of his own greed and selfishness.
44. He was unsympathetic with many house sellers(Sentencedict.com), complaining that they were motivated by greed.
45. Greed was her downfall.
46. Most of the characters in the novel exhibit those common human frailties - ignorance and greed.
47. Protesters have called the building a monument to corporate greed.
48. We can see a sharp distinction between ambition and greed.
49. In an acquisitive society the form that selfishness predominantly takes is monetary greed.
50. I have to reject the notion that greed can be a good thing.
51. During his sermon, the priest railed against greed.
52. For greed, all nature is too little. Seneca
53. Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence. Mason Cooley
54. He is driven by greed and envy.
55. And as you know, greed knows no bounds.
56. A reckless deal driven by short-term greed?
57. The hens clambered in, cackling with delight and greed.
58. There is a warning against greed.
59. Society without jealousy, greed, or possessions.
60. Greed would later prove to be Barnett's downfall.