Catalan
rapacitat Excessive desire for possessions and wealth.
Synonyms
Examples for "greed"
Examples for "greed"
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They send a message that greed is good; the individual comes first.
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Themes of justice, social issues, power and greed are common to both.
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And the people of northern Europe had an insatiable greed for beavers.
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Yet nearly all of them had one thing in common: brute greed.
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This culture of greed is endemic, but perhaps that's a wider issue.
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It was always easy to count on avarice among the foot soldiers.
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The avarice of the French bourgeoise would have proved a promising factor.
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This is true of avarice; but it is not so of economy.
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Out of the loins of pride and avarice comes the innocent child.
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Where selfish ambition and avarice will be exposed in its true light.
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In youth, lust; in full manhood, strife; and in old age, covetousness.
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Usurers were the open representatives of flagrant covetousness in all the ages.
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The undulating tapestry of Tuscany has bewitched people into covetousness for years.
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Christ warns us against hypocrisy, the fear of the world and covetousness.
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The followers of covetousness are: Want of charity, dishonest dealing, theft, etc.
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Crime prevailed; cupidity and vengeance were the guiding principles of the chieftains.
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The hankering after these arises from pride, error of judgment, and cupidity.
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But this had only excited the cupidity of the other petty states.
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He tried to satisfy this cupidity, but it stuck in his throat.
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Property was secure, unless enormous fortunes tempted the cupidity of the emperors.
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The loss of time greediness has inflicted on us has been frightful.
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He turns round now, and puts the blame of greediness on me.
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She was delighted to have the excuse for satisfying her own greediness.
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Such prolixity enchanted the King, whose greediness for business epistles was insatiable.
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With a greediness that could not be concealed, Hakkabut grasped them all.
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Our national peril is Mammonism, and the sordid pursuit of gold.
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I want, Christianity, instead of the Mammonism we 're threatened with.
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Mammonism, as we said, at least works; this goes idle.
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With our present system of individual Mammonism, and Government by Laissez-faire, this Nation cannot live.
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The Working Aristocracy steeped in ignoble Mammonism: The Idle Aristocracy, with its yellow parchments and pretentious futilities.
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Adeo enim sacerdotes erant illius temporis ab avaritia immunes, ut nec territoria nisi coacti acciperent.-Hen.
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Mores enim sequuntur ibidem perversissimi; regnat superbia, ardet avaritia, invidia corrodit singulos, luxuria diffamat totam illam curiam, gula in omnibus dominatur.
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Nor did this satisfy the rapacity of Mohammed Ali and the English.
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Romans never mutinied, save through the rapacity or incompetence of their general.
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Their disinterestedness presented a striking contrast to the rapacity of the French.
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His tall, gaunt, craggy figure had a suggestion of hunger and rapacity.
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Now for some years the rapacity of maritime peoples has been checked.
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The worst enemy of Pompey never charged him with corruption or rapacity.
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On one was a satire on the hypocritical rapacity of perfidious Albion.
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His folly is only equalled by his rapacity, and both are stupendous.
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What then are the hopes and prospects of covetousness, ambition, and rapacity?
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The fierce rapacity of the Navailles was equally feared and hated.
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With the rapacity Kidd had the cruelty of his odious calling.
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We are as the unhappy Indians to the rapacity of Europe.
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But nothing would satisfy your rapacity; you had resolved to quarrel with us.
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The financial shrewdness and rapacity of property is worthy of admiration.
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The ferocious rapacity of his servant had set his pride upon its guard.
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Their cruelty and rapacity knew no bounds, and filled Athens with universal dismay.
