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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151. The briar patch is our fear and our greed.
152. Certainly it involves relinquishment of stinginess, clinging and greed.
153. Greed is one of the seven deadly sins .
154. Forsake your greed, abandon your appetites of ostentation.
155. Going into our fear and confronting our greed, our weaknesses, our neediness is the way out.
156. The boom-bust explanation does not exonerate greed, shortsightedness, or misguided government policies. But it does help explain them.
157. He raised his head, with a look of unrestrained greed in his covetous eyes.
158. We know how high-flying words can be deployed in the service of cynical aims, and how the noblest sentiments can be subverted in the name of power, expedience, greed, or intolerance.
159. Fueled by greed in having the opportunity to plunder another rich civilization, they conquered the Incan emperor and had him put to death.
160. Greed, recklessness and self-interest rides in the saddle of today's capitalism. -Jone I. Bogle.
161. There were some who accused him of lukewarmness in his adopted religion, and others who put it down to greed of wealth and reluctance to incur expense.
162. Based on the NP complete theory, and setting off from the problem's computability and complexity, the principle and realizing process of the greed algorithm are proposed in this paper.
163. Much black humor is directed against greed, narrow-mindedness, complacency and hypocrisy.
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164. Greed eventually let to his becoming a criminal covered in chains.
165. In fact, self-financing by colleges has become an exercise in greed as they keep collecting fees irrespective of the quality of education they impart.
166. We can no longer ignore the crisis of water, nor can we rob and ravage water resource of the nature dissolutely for one's own greed and avarice.
167. The wise person should go beyond the evil of greed and miserliness .
168. You have little greed for careerism and feel contented as long as you could enjoy walking on this plain road for a moment.
169. In the greed paradigm, everything is about profit and loss.
170. People make money from it due to human weakness, human greed and human gullibility .
171. Capitalism, in its purest, simplest form, is little more than a Pavlovian response to our basic instincts: greed, selfishness, adoration of profit, and unshackled consumerism.
172. Altman asserted, "We were making a political statement about western civilisation and greed.".
173. When you have and hold a need, harken not to others greed.
174. I pray that all beings will not gain a mind of greed, will not be bound up in body-and-mind.
175. Tales of greed and fraud during the boom years abound.
176. Greed and inflation fears are working together to form unprecedented speculative demand for property.
177. What happened was a real life drama of power, greed and sex that is in everyway as dishy as Dallas, and better.
178. The subconscious mind is then open to the suggestion of fear, hatred, selfishness, greed, self-depreciation and other negative forces, derived from surrounding persons or circumstances.
179. Finally, the paper points out the insatiable greed and brutality of Shylock.
180. The monks bring many benefits to others and she was able to overcome her greed and miserliness .