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Meanings of greed in English
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Examples for "greedy"
Examples for "greedy"
1
Superefficient engines that were kept off the market by greedy energy companies.
2
However, when we paid piles of peanuts, we simply got greedy monkeys.
3
A greedy algorithm approach was used to conduct the propensity score match.
4
There was one of her family in particular that was especially greedy.
5
Simple in his tastes, and yet very vain and greedy of applause.
1
It was always easy to count on avarice among the foot soldiers.
2
The avarice of the French bourgeoise would have proved a promising factor.
3
This is true of avarice; but it is not so of economy.
4
Out of the loins of pride and avarice comes the innocent child.
5
Where selfish ambition and avarice will be exposed in its true light.
1
In youth, lust; in full manhood, strife; and in old age, covetousness.
2
Usurers were the open representatives of flagrant covetousness in all the ages.
3
The undulating tapestry of Tuscany has bewitched people into covetousness for years.
4
Christ warns us against hypocrisy, the fear of the world and covetousness.
5
The followers of covetousness are: Want of charity, dishonest dealing, theft, etc.
1
Crime prevailed; cupidity and vengeance were the guiding principles of the chieftains.
2
The hankering after these arises from pride, error of judgment, and cupidity.
3
But this had only excited the cupidity of the other petty states.
4
He tried to satisfy this cupidity, but it stuck in his throat.
5
Property was secure, unless enormous fortunes tempted the cupidity of the emperors.
1
Nor did this satisfy the rapacity of Mohammed Ali and the English.
2
Romans never mutinied, save through the rapacity or incompetence of their general.
3
Their disinterestedness presented a striking contrast to the rapacity of the French.
4
His tall, gaunt, craggy figure had a suggestion of hunger and rapacity.
5
Now for some years the rapacity of maritime peoples has been checked.
1
The loss of time greediness has inflicted on us has been frightful.
2
He turns round now, and puts the blame of greediness on me.
3
She was delighted to have the excuse for satisfying her own greediness.
4
Such prolixity enchanted the King, whose greediness for business epistles was insatiable.
5
With a greediness that could not be concealed, Hakkabut grasped them all.
1
Our national peril is Mammonism, and the sordid pursuit of gold.
2
I want, Christianity, instead of the Mammonism we 're threatened with.
3
Mammonism, as we said, at least works; this goes idle.
4
With our present system of individual Mammonism, and Government by Laissez-faire, this Nation cannot live.
5
The Working Aristocracy steeped in ignoble Mammonism: The Idle Aristocracy, with its yellow parchments and pretentious futilities.
1
Adeo enim sacerdotes erant illius temporis ab avaritia immunes, ut nec territoria nisi coacti acciperent.-Hen.
2
Mores enim sequuntur ibidem perversissimi; regnat superbia, ardet avaritia, invidia corrodit singulos, luxuria diffamat totam illam curiam, gula in omnibus dominatur.
Usage of greed in English
1
They send a message that greed is good; the individual comes first.
2
Themes of justice, social issues, power and greed are common to both.
3
And the people of northern Europe had an insatiable greed for beavers.
4
Yet nearly all of them had one thing in common: brute greed.
5
This culture of greed is endemic, but perhaps that's a wider issue.
6
I thought I detected greed in them; perhaps it was only relief.
7
We live in a disillusioning age of greed, corruption and political scandals.
8
The trained greed of the rascal will find them in a moment.
9
The greed in your breasts has harrowed the people with iron claws.
10
But later generations were to bear the brunt of the interlopers' greed.
11
I hate lying and cheating; they are signs of cowardice and greed.
12
The only refuge of the criminal was the greed of his judges.
13
Nor do I store the rice in a granary for selfish greed.
14
Others may have destroyed the catacombs for a reason other than greed.
15
Woman, though, must suffer and concede whilst law and land condones greed.
16
The writer describes how, in his opinion, greed has changed the firm.
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Greed across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
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United States of America
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