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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121. One can not help admiring his stubbornness, if not his greed.
122. Greed and the expectation of proper rewards are the only real justification for risk-taking.
123. Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. Erich Fromm
124. The house of his father contained all the acquisitiveness and greed that promised the paroxysm of class war.
125. The fear of jobs lost to immigrants and Third World countries, to corporate greed.
126. Greed, frustration, and envy so easily replace a loving relationship.
127. The bad news is that publishers are succumbing more and more often to the most blatant sort of greed.
128. Under this thin veneer of modesty lies a monster of greed.
129. The greed for power of local politicians is simply amazing.
130. When we let our greed become our need, we can never be happy indeed! RVM
131. I could read faces too well not to be anxious: mockery, misconception, contempt, greed.
132. The play's central theme is greed and its corrupting effects.
133. When government enters into the enthusiastic, unrestrained greed of a market frenzy, we are all affected. Sentencedict.com
134. Prosecutors contend the motive was hatred and greed for the parents' estate, once valued at $ 14 million.
135. I imagined how frustrated many good physicians must be, too, to find so many of their colleagues motivated by greed.
136. In acquisitiveness and greed there was little to choose between the victors and the vanquished in the political struggles of the 1320s.
137. The localised struggles there are to a large extent a variation on a wider pattern of exploitation and greed.
138. Greed got him his fancy cars and high-powered boats. And greed caused his downfall.
139. They need to figure out how to make a reasonable profit and knock off the greed.
140. The triumph of greed; an Antiques Roadshow society in which our most prized assets were sold off for profit.
141. The doctor was rubbing her hands, probably to warm them, but it looked like a gesture of glee and greed.
142. Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. Mahatma Gandhi
143. You don't really want more ice cream -- it's just greed.
144. Fear and, to a lesser extent, greed are what make money move.
145. You sputter in greed and in arrogance.
146. The demon of greed ruined the miser's happiness.
147. Greed is iniquitous, a sin before God and man.
148. There is no end to inductive greed.
149. Greed is a miser's preponderant characteristic.
150. A mister is characterized by greed.