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Meanings of greed in English

Russian
жадность
Portuguese
avareza
Spanish
avidez
Catalan
cobdícia

Insatiable longing for material gain.

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      жадность
      Usage of greed in English
      1
      They send a message that greed is good; the individual comes first.
      The Guardian
      2
      Themes of justice, social issues, power and greed are common to both.
      The Irish Times
      3
      And the people of northern Europe had an insatiable greed for beavers.
      New york: the novel
      4
      Yet nearly all of them had one thing in common: brute greed.
      Priceless: how I went undercover to rescue the world's stolen tr...
      5
      This culture of greed is endemic, but perhaps that's a wider issue.
      The Guardian
      6
      I thought I detected greed in them; perhaps it was only relief.
      The Moccasin Maker
      7
      We live in a disillusioning age of greed, corruption and political scandals.
      The Irish Times
      8
      The trained greed of the rascal will find them in a moment.
      My Discovery of England
      9
      The greed in your breasts has harrowed the people with iron claws.
      Mother
      10
      But later generations were to bear the brunt of the interlopers' greed.
      The Guardian
      11
      I hate lying and cheating; they are signs of cowardice and greed.
      Principles of Teaching
      12
      The only refuge of the criminal was the greed of his judges.
      The Age of the Reformation
      13
      Nor do I store the rice in a granary for selfish greed.
      The Art of the Story-Teller
      14
      Others may have destroyed the catacombs for a reason other than greed.
      BBC
      15
      Woman, though, must suffer and concede whilst law and land condones greed.
      Tomato rhapsody: a fable of love, lust and forbidden fruit
      16
      The writer describes how, in his opinion, greed has changed the firm.
      The new yorker
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