Sinónimos
Examples for "greedy"
Examples for "greedy"
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Superefficient engines that were kept off the market by greedy energy companies.
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However, when we paid piles of peanuts, we simply got greedy monkeys.
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A greedy algorithm approach was used to conduct the propensity score match.
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There was one of her family in particular that was especially greedy.
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Simple in his tastes, and yet very vain and greedy of applause.
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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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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 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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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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I thought I detected greed in them; perhaps it was only relief.
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We live in a disillusioning age of greed, corruption and political scandals.
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The trained greed of the rascal will find them in a moment.
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The greed in your breasts has harrowed the people with iron claws.
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But later generations were to bear the brunt of the interlopers' greed.
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I hate lying and cheating; they are signs of cowardice and greed.
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The only refuge of the criminal was the greed of his judges.
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Nor do I store the rice in a granary for selfish greed.
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Others may have destroyed the catacombs for a reason other than greed.
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Woman, though, must suffer and concede whilst law and land condones greed.
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The writer describes how, in his opinion, greed has changed the firm.
