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Definition of greed in English: greednoun ɡriːdɡrid mass nounIntense and selfish desire for something, especially wealth, power, or food. mercenaries who had allowed greed to overtake their principles greed has taken over football the colonists' greed for African land Example sentencesExamples - Once more, greed has been allowed to take precedence over any regard for health and beauty.
- You are meant to be helping us and not just serving the developers and greed and money.
- It is bad for our province and makes a laughing stock of us when greed and power appear to be the cause.
- Some say the war is fuelled by greed more than politics, and will never end.
- Such places are more gourmand than gourmet, tied up with the wrong kind of greed and a vulgar desire to impress.
- On top of that there are the human factors of greed, vanity or just plain ignorance that can creep in.
- It has only bred and encouraged a race for greed and amassing wealth at the cost of the sufferers.
- It just looked like greed and a wilful desire to drive the few remaining little shops out of business.
- But the worse bit is, he is a victim of the stupidity and greed of the parents of those young boys.
- In our age, the men who shake the planet for their own power and greed are called corrupters.
- Hundreds of beautiful blooms are lost forever, perhaps mostly because of greed.
- In an era dominated by greed and selfishness, they acted with phenomenal selflessness.
- Although legend has made her an icon of female lust, her chief vice was greed.
- He was fuelled by his greed, with no conscious thoughts except for gaining his desire.
- Yet what holds the play together is a sense of disloyalty and unscrupulous greed.
- His greed and love of power, are of course, allowed to run in parallel by the laws of compulsory purchase.
- Because of corporate greed elsewhere, he may not be able to get his idea to the market.
- The story is one of family; the bond between brothers put to the test by a terrible act of violence and greed.
- It's not difficult, use some common sense and purchase for need and not for greed.
- They must be made aware of the troubles that they cause by their own selfish greed.
Synonyms avarice, acquisitiveness, covetousness, rapacity, graspingness, cupidity, avidity, possessiveness, materialism mercenariness, predatoriness informal money-grubbing, money-grabbing North American informal grabbiness rare Mammonism, pleonexia gluttony, hunger, ravenousness, voraciousness, voracity, insatiability gourmandizing, gourmandism intemperance, overeating, overconsumption, self-indulgence informal swinishness, piggishness, hoggishness, gutsiness rare edacity, esurience desire, urge, need, appetite, hunger, craving, longing, yearning, hankering, hungering, thirst, pining avidity, eagerness, enthusiasm, impatience informal yen, itch
Origin Late 16th century: back-formation from greedy. Rhymes accede, bead, Bede, bleed, breed, cede, concede, creed, deed, Eid, exceed, feed, Gide, God speed, he'd, heed, impede, interbreed, intercede, Jamshid, knead, lead, mead, Mede, meed, misdeed, mislead, misread, need, plead, proceed, read, rede, reed, Reid, retrocede, screed, secede, seed, she'd, speed, stampede, steed, succeed, supersede, Swede, tweed, weak-kneed, we'd, weed Definition of greed in US English: greednounɡridɡrēd Intense and selfish desire for something, especially wealth, power, or food. mercenaries who had allowed greed to overtake their principles greed has taken over football the colonists' greed for African land Example sentencesExamples - Because of corporate greed elsewhere, he may not be able to get his idea to the market.
- Hundreds of beautiful blooms are lost forever, perhaps mostly because of greed.
- On top of that there are the human factors of greed, vanity or just plain ignorance that can creep in.
- Yet what holds the play together is a sense of disloyalty and unscrupulous greed.
- Although legend has made her an icon of female lust, her chief vice was greed.
- But the worse bit is, he is a victim of the stupidity and greed of the parents of those young boys.
- His greed and love of power, are of course, allowed to run in parallel by the laws of compulsory purchase.
- They must be made aware of the troubles that they cause by their own selfish greed.
- The story is one of family; the bond between brothers put to the test by a terrible act of violence and greed.
- Some say the war is fuelled by greed more than politics, and will never end.
- In our age, the men who shake the planet for their own power and greed are called corrupters.
- He was fuelled by his greed, with no conscious thoughts except for gaining his desire.
- It has only bred and encouraged a race for greed and amassing wealth at the cost of the sufferers.
- Once more, greed has been allowed to take precedence over any regard for health and beauty.
- Such places are more gourmand than gourmet, tied up with the wrong kind of greed and a vulgar desire to impress.
- You are meant to be helping us and not just serving the developers and greed and money.
- It's not difficult, use some common sense and purchase for need and not for greed.
- It is bad for our province and makes a laughing stock of us when greed and power appear to be the cause.
- In an era dominated by greed and selfishness, they acted with phenomenal selflessness.
- It just looked like greed and a wilful desire to drive the few remaining little shops out of business.
Synonyms avarice, greediness, acquisitiveness, covetousness, rapacity, graspingness, cupidity, avidity, possessiveness, materialism gluttony, greediness, hunger, ravenousness, voraciousness, voracity, insatiability desire, urge, need, appetite, hunger, craving, longing, yearning, hankering, hungering, thirst, pining
Origin Late 16th century: back-formation from greedy. |